Monday, 6 July 2015 – Day 1
Joint EMMA – Federica Keynote speech: MOOCs: Re-examining our Assumptions
Introductions: everyone involved in the EMMA Summer School
Date: Monday, 6 July 2015 – Day 1
Hour: 10:30
Leader(s): Sally Reynolds, ATiT, Belgium
Description: During this session everyone involved in the EMMA Summer School will get the chance to briefly present themselves: 2 slides and 2 minutes each.
During this session, participants will be invited to share their first ideas for their own MOOC based on the expectations of the organisation with which they work and/or their own preferences and expectations. This session will provide an opportunity to hear more about participants plans and will enable the training team to modify and adapt the content and format of the rest of the week to better meet the experiences and expectations of everyone taking part.
Joint EMMA – JTEL Workshop: Interface Culture reloaded
Joint EMMA – JTEL Workshop: MOOC pedagogies (xMOOCs, cMOOCs and iMOOCs)
Date: Monday, 6 July 2015 – Day 1
Hour: 14:30 – 16:00
Leader(s): António Teixeira, Universidade Aberta, Portugal
Description: Combining openness and scalability, MOOCs have been spearheading the dramatic expansion of online education in recent years. However, very different pedagogical approaches can be found in this new form of education delivery. Apart from the more typical xMOOC model and the original connectivist cMOOC alternative pedagogical approaches have been developing in Europe, pioneered by the iMOOC model. In this workshop we will analyze the theoretical foundations and principles of MOOC design and explore the different pedagogies being mostly used in these courses.
Workshop – Choosing a MOOC approach that meets your objectives and suits your available resources
Date: Monday, 6 July 2015 – Day 1
Hour: 16:30 – 18:00
Leader(s): Carmen Padrón-Nápoles, ATOS, Spain
Description: This workshop will give a good opportunity to participants to get acquainted with the main concepts taken into account in the different existing MOOC approaches from pedagogical, technical and market perspectives. This hands-on session will allow participants to establish proper mappings between learning objectives and the choices for designing and developing their MOOC considering learning, human and budgetary resources. At the end of the workshop, participants will have a better overview of how their MOOCs would look like from the design perspective and initial plans for their implementation would be prepared.
Tuesday, 7 July 2015 – Day 2
Workshop – Elaborating your MOOC approach: design considerations
Date: Tuesday, 7 July 2015 – Day 2
Hour: 09:00 – 10:30
Leader(s): Olga Firssova, Open University, The Netherlands;
Mart Laanpere, Tallinn University, Estonia;
Description: The principles and techniques of the task-centered instructional design will be introduced and practiced in the hands-on group work that involves creating, sequencing and validating authentic instructional tasks. A special focus will be on mapping the instructional tasks in MOOC to facts, concepts, procedures and rules identified in the course objectves, as well as scaffolding the learning through well-designed course assignments and learning resources.
Workshop – Exploring EMMA: a demonstration and practice session
Date: Tuesday, 7 July 2015 – Day 2
Hour: 10:30 – 11:15
Leader(s): Marco Cerrone, University of Naples Federico II, Italy;
Maka Eradze, University of Naples Federico II, Italy;
Natascia Palmina D’Amico, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Description: This practice session is aimed to allow participants to discover and explore EMMA platform, both from the student and teacher/tutor perspective.
After a presentation about structure and functioning the session will follow with a guided tour: participants will be invited to register to the platform and to enroll to one or more MOOCs. Furthermore it will be possible to access the platform with a teacher profile to create/modify contents, manage communication with students in order to get a better understanding of the underlying design principle of the EMMA platform.
Workshop – Exploring EMMA: The use of social media in MOOC practice
Date: Tuesday, 7 July 2015 – Day 2
Hour: 11:30 – 12:45
Leader(s): Eleonora Pantò, CSP, Italy
Description: This workshop aim to discuss some good practices used in emma in order to increase student engagement through social media and also how to promote you mooc.
We’ll present some tools and discuss pros and cons.
Demonstration and discussion – Being multilingual with EMMA: how the EMMA translation and transcription works
Date: Tuesday, 7 July 2015 – Day 2
Hour: 14:30 – 16:00
Leader(s): Jorge Civera, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Ruth Kerr, University of Naples Federico II, Italy;
Description: Jorge plans to run this session so that it meets the following objectives:
- To motivate the need for transcriptions and translations in the context of MOOCs.
- To motivate the need for automatic transcriptions and translations to reduce user review effort – automatic transcriptions and translations are not perfect, but better than generating them from scratch.
- To show how automatic transcription and translation systems are built? Just to convey the necessity of adapting these systems to the content to be transcribed and translated.
- To provide a hands-on step-by-step tutorial on the transcription and translation platform (TTP) simulating the transcription and translation of a course. This tutorial will be divided into two parts corresponding to the two workflows on TTP (transcription and translation of video content and translation of text content). See workflows at the end of this e-mail.
To set up the tutorial, Jorge plans to create an account on the TTP for each participant in the Summer School, so that they can play around. For this he will need to know the native language(s) of all participants to select the appropriate content for each one.
Presentation and discussion – Choosing to implement video in your MOOC: what are the options?
Date: Tuesday, 7 July 2015 – Day 2
Hour: 16:30 – 18:00
Leader(s): Mathy Vanbuel, ATiT, Belgium;
Description: In this session we will discuss why you should or should not use video in your MOOC. Once you have decided whether video is one of the media that you will apply in your media mix, we will look at how you can produce appropriate video yourself, in your organisation or with additional, external support. We will discuss pedagogical as well as technical and organisational issues. After this session you should be able to decide whether you can and want to use video and draw up a plan to effectively produce and deploy it in your next MOOC.
Wednesday, 8 July 2015 – Day 3
Workshop – Sharing the EMMA experience: members of the EMMA team will present and discuss their experience of setting up and running MOOCs in the first year of operation
Wednesday, 8 July 2015 – Day 3
Sharing the EMMA experience: lessons learnt
Joint EMMA – JTEL – MOOC Production: authoring and management of educational resources
Thursday, 9 July 2015 – Day 4
Workshop – Learning analytics
Date: Thursday, 9 July 2015 – Day 4
Hour: 09:45 – 11:15
Leader(s): Rebecca Ferguson, Open University, UK
Description: This hands-on workshop will work with learning design tools and with massive open online courses (MOOCs) on the FutureLearn platform to explore how learning design can be used to influence the choice and design of learning analytics. This workshop will be of interest to people who are involved in the design or presentation of online courses, and to those who want to find out more about learning design, learning analytics or MOOCs. Participants will find it helpful to have registered for FutureLearn and explored the platform for a short time in advance of the workshop.
Presentation and workshop – Tracking and monitoring learners
Date: Thursday, 9 July 2015 – Day 4
Hour: 11:30 – 12:45
Leader(s): Maka Eradze, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Chiara Ferrari, IPSOS, Italy;
Eleonora Pantò, CSP, Italy;
Description: This workshop will start with a brief presentation of learning analytics, in a few words, from general to more specific – EMMA case. It will show the tools implemented in the EMMA Platform and which are designed to track learning activities and to collect learners’ feedbacks, both in real time and via retrospective analysis and will also overview the target groups and stakeholders in EMMA LA framework. It will also present Learning Analytics dashboards in Development*.
Participants will be then asked to highlight the main outcomes they are interested in: one group will impersonate teachers and tutors and one group will impersonate learners.
Each group will be asked to list the aspects and issues they would like the tools to track.
The workshop will be of interest to the same people who have taken part in the morning session, and who will have the opportunity to look at the analytics from the back end.
Getting out from the Fishbowl: Experiencing Mooc in a Flipped Mode
Workshop – EMMA features workflow
Date: Thursday, 9 July 2015 – Day 4
Hour: 16:30 – 18:00
Leader(s): Maka Eradze, University of Naples Federico II, Italy;
Ruth Kerr, University of Naples Federico II, Italy;
Ilaria Merciai, University of Naples Federico II, Italy;
Description: During this demonstration session, experienced EMMA MOOC providers will take you through some of the functionalities specific to EMMA (including the Personal Learning Environment and Toolbox, assignment, Quizzes and Peer Assessment) which may be useful for you to consider when designing and setting up your own MOOC. You will also have a chance to try out some of these functionalities for yourself and to discuss with the session leaders how effective they are in practice.
Friday, 10 July 2015 – Day 5
Presentation of MOOC proposals by participants and review with the training team
Date: Friday, 10 July 2015 – Day 5
Hour: 09.45 – 11.15
Leader(s): Sally Reynolds, ATiT, Belgium
Description: All participants will present their ideas abut the type of MOOC they would like to put forward. This can be on either an individual or team basis and will provide an opportunity for the training team and participants to review the choices made, the functionalities necessaryand the next steps in terms of development of their MOOC that needs to be taken.
During this session and in the session that follows immediately afterwards, members fo the training team will be available to organise special ‘clinic’ sessions on specific topics of interest to one or more participants to re-visit subjects and topics dealt with earlier in the week.
Friday, 10 July 2015 – Day 5
Round Table – Charting the course for EMMA in the next 12 months and beyond
Date: Friday, 10 July 2015 – Day 5
Hour: 11.30 – 12.45
Leader(s): EMMA consortium
Description:
Joint EMMA – JTEL session: Closing
SPECIAL SESSIONS
Soapbox time
Date: from Tuesday 7 July to Friday 10 July 2015 – Day 2-5
Hour: 12:45 – 13:15
Description: Presentations and inputs from participants about their own work and related initiatives.
SOCIAL INTERACTION
Coffee
Date: All days
Hour: 11:15 – 11:30 & 16:00 – 16:30
Description: This short breaks, one in the morning and one in the afternoon of each day, are intended to give the participants refreshment and the possibility to let the previous session contents sink in and gather the energies for the next.
Lunch
Date: All days
Hour: 13:15 – 14:30
Description: During lunch breaks participants are welcome to test out the EMMA platform for themselves.
Dinner
Date: 6 July, 7 July and 9 July 2015 – Days 1, 2, 4
Hour: 19:30
Description:
SOCIAL INTERACTION MOMENTS
Social interaction
Date: 6 July, 7 July and 9 July 2015 – Days 1, 2, 4
Hour: 18:00 – 19:30
Description: These moments are intended to provide the participants with the possibility to interact among themselves and exchange ideas as well as to take a rest from the day and prepare for dinner. Participants are also welcome to test out the EMMA platform for themself.
Excursion
Date: Sunday 5 July and Wednesday 8 July
Hour: Sunday: all day; Wednesday: from 13:15
Description:
Excursion
Date: Wednesday 8 July
Hour: Wednesday: from 16:00
Description: Guided tour with historian guide to the ARAGON’S CASTLE, The Medieval citadel. Visit to the citadel with the castle where people of Ischia have been living till only 200 years ago; connected to Ischia with a drawbridge in the past. Through the guided tour we will visit: the Crypt with frescoes left by the school of Giotto, Cathedral, 3 churches, Prison, cimitery of the nuns and the torture museum.
Social interaction
Date: 6 July, 7 July and 9 July 2015 – Days 1, 2, 4
Hour: 18:00 – 19:30
Description: These moments are intended to provide the participants with the possibility to interact among themselves and exchange ideas as well as to take a rest from the day and prepare for dinner. Participants are also welcome to test out the EMMA platform for themself.