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Online education at

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José Martins Ferreira Margarida Amaral

Vice-rector Head of educational technologies

(slides online at https://goo.gl/hSTvBz)

Open Online Learning: an answer to societal challenges

E-learning Lab | University of Lisbon, November 15th 2017

Roadmap

• “Brave new world”
• Short and longer term goals
• The U.NorteX.PT project
• Educational Technologies @ U.Porto
• MOOC @ U.Porto

https://goo.gl/hSTvBz

“Brave new world”

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The gig economy (cf. The Economist

@ https://goo.gl/ZnnDXX)

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The gig economy @ Mechanical Turk

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Not all humans are fit for HITs...

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Short and longer

term goals

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Up to 2017

• c. 200 bachelor, master and integrated master courses (26K+ students) and 14 schools
• Moodle is the official LMS
• Adoption varies widely from school to school (9% to 64%)

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https://goo.gl/hSTvBz

Short-term goal

• Provide a distance learning portal to bring together the e-/b-learning courses offered by the various schools
• Split on-campus and distance LMS to emphasize the different views (internal x external)
• Focus on continuous education courses

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https://goo.gl/hSTvBz

Medium and longer term goals

• Migrate traditional on-campus pedagogical models to MOOC-based models and flipped classrooms
• Offer ECTS-awarding courses in dual mode (on-campus + distance)
• Adopt dual mode of delivery for full degrees (restrictions may apply)

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The U.NorteX.PT project

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Vision and goals

• Shared portal bringing together distance education courses of three universities (U.Porto, U.Minho, UTAD)
• Rationalize portfolios, enable interinstitutional accreditation of e-/b-learning courses

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Aditional project information

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http://www.unortex.pt

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Educational Technologies U.Porto

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Team and tasks

• Pedagogical and technical support;
• Guidance in content design;
• Teacher training;
• LMS management;
• Multimedia development;
• National and International projects in e-learning topic;
• Development and production of e-learning courses and MOOCs.

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Pedagogical and technical support

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Teacher training

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E-learning events

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Multimedia development

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MOOC @ U.Porto

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1st MOOC: “As alterações climáticas nos média escolares”

• 2 Teachers (Sciences and Fine Arts)
• 4 Technical support and content developers
• 2 Multimedia developers and instructional designer (ET)

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Saber mais: http://www.climaedumedia.com/

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1st MOOC: “As alterações climáticas nos média escolares”

● MOOC Platform: MiríadaX

1st edition: 2015

2nd edition: 2016

• 5 Modules - 5 weeks
• 2 videos/module
• Guide for strategies in the classroom
• P2P assessment activities
• Self assessment quizzes
• Discussion boards
• Further readings

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Saber mais: http://www.climaedumedia.com/

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● ~400+ hours # pre-production, production and post-production.

● Content design quality

● Tutors

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1st MOOC: “As alterações climáticas nos média escolares”

● Making a difference in video content quality

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1KAdH2DZKE

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Lesson learnt

● Popular topic – course suitable for general public

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2nd MOOC: “Coma melhor, poupe mais”

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Allergy in schools ~ 355

Allergy in catering sector ~340

Food Allergy - 165 (b-learning)

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Total distance learning students: 1179

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Thanks for your attention

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