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MOOC Experience in the University of Cantabria
Sergio Martinez and Fernando Cañizal
And, finally, it is possible to use a Creative Commons
licence ‘NonCommercial’ only for educational purposes
and keeping the commercial rights.
In our case, the situation is a bit strange. The agreement
with Miriada X says that all the contents have to be
licensed with Creative Commons, but there are no tools
in the platform to tag contents with CC licenses. So, we
decided to include a note in every course saying “© The
authors. This work is licensed with CC BY-NC-SA.” We
furthermore add CC license in all the videos we upload to
YouTube.
References
(1) http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education/open-educational-resources
(2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course
(3) http://creativecommons.org/tag/massive-open-online-course
Now we are working on demanding of Miríada X a better
way to include open licenses in our MOOCs, considering
that it is fundamental for increasing the usage and
impact of OER.
Big data. How can we get useful information
There is a final question that is really interesting for us: the
study of the huge amount of data generated by MOOCs
users: age, gender, timetables, most viewed pages, most
used resources, etc.
All this information provides usage patterns of the websites
(and in this particular case, of the educational materials)
that can be very interesting to improve the course
offer or better fulfil user expectations. They are also subject
to commercial interests because of the possible attention
that some companies may have in getting to know
such patterns.
In the first edition of Miriada X MOOCs barely any analysis
was carried out, and in the second it this was still only
being considered as a possibility, regardless of how interesting
it would be. Nonetheless, the UC has the intention
to set up a line of innovation based on Big Data research
in order to involve professors in the study and analysis of
this information. This will provide us with a way to improve
our offer, adapting it better to the needs of the users.
Conclusion
To sum up, MOOCs are a new step in the development
of the huge possibilities of New Technologies in Education.
They are really interesting (especially because a lot
of users can be enrolled) but it is necessary to consider
their advantages and disadvantages. Thus, going back to
the simile between MOOCs and Tsunamis it is probably
better to be surfing the wave than waiting on the beach,
but somebody may think that the best course of action is
going up to the top of a hill, and wait until the water goes
away. Time will tell.
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