Seminar for Bologna and Higher Education Experts, Madrid, 22-24 April 2013, http://madrid2013.bolognaexperts.net/ CEVUG (cevug.ugr.es) Miguel Gea, Director Elearning Centre of University of Granada presents: Case study presentation of "best practices" projets at EACEA LLP... Mobiblog: The european web-log platform for mobile students and other trends towards to virtual mobility, Open Educational Resources (OER) and MOOC (abiertaUGR)

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Mobi-Blog – The European Weblog Platform for Mobile Students
Miguel Gea,
E-Learning Centre of University of Granada
mgea@ugr.es
http://www.mobi-blog.eu
Agreeement 134390-LLP-I-2007-I-ES-ERASMUS-EVC
ERASMUS – Virtual Campuses 10/2007- 11/2009
http://madrid2013.bolognaexperts.net/

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Our role in the University
• Traditional 500 years old University
• International Relations
• Mobility
1st Incoming Erasmus Students
1st Outcome Erasmus Students
•Innovations technologies
•Promoting new media &
ICT learning technologies
•Training teachers & student

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Mobi-blog and “cross border education”
• Building the European Higher Education Area (EHEA)
& Erasmus Mobility
• Questions?:
• Student point of view
• ICT support (for XXI century of digital natives)

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Aims
• European Higher Education Area (EHEA)
• Erasmus Mobility (cultural change)
• Web 2.0 (support to this process)

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Background
• Mobility means
• Cultural changes (country, cities, language)
• Courses / teachers & methodologies / skills (ECTS)
• Social impact (family & friends)
• Web use
• The 70% of students are part of social networks, but only
18% have own blog.
• The (80%) ERASMUS students would learn from
previous experiences

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Background
Impact of ICT

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MOBIBLOG:
The European Weblog platform for Mobile
Students
ERASMUS – Virtual Campus

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Methodological approach
• Mobiblog = (learning from) storytelling
• It is a multi-institutional, web-based, bottom-up multi-lingual service
on European level for peer-to-peer exchange of experiences of
individual mobile students
• Consist of:
• A self-sustaining weblog area for European mobile students
• An structured and comprehensive online guide for mobile
students which summarizes the collected real life experiences
• Promote the creation of a network of universities to integrate
Mobi-Blog into their portfolio of services for mobile students

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Technological approach
Blog
Multi-lingual
Experiences
interchange
http://mobi-blog.eu

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Technological approach
ONLINE GUIDE - Structured organisation of stories
Useful information: country, city, university

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Activities: dissemination

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Analysis of results
• Distribution Geographically: from - to + cities
• Contents: Discussion topics
• Feelings: the affective emotion of narration

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Analysis of results: geographically
• Stories from 20 different countries
• Analysed as from-to pairs (where to go … where are from)

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Analysis of results: geographically
• Most popular cities (most demanded cities)

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Analysis of results: contents
• Categorization of topics
• Day-living = set of survival advices kit

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Analysis of results: feelings
• Posts include affective information
• Considered one of the Best experiences of their life (17%)

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Analysis of results: usability
• Use of eye tracking
• Detect problems in design (understanding) + improvements
• Comprehension
• navigation
• visualization

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Lesson learnt
Important service for students
• Universities is adopting such information
• Reception of incoming Erasmus students
• ICT & social network:
• Recommendations / advices
• Courses (before & after mobility)
BUILDING ONLINE (LEARNING) COMMUNITIES

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Other works at UGR - OER
Testing and Open Education
Framework for Europe
http://oer-europe.net
- OER creation
- Quality Assurance
- Certification

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Other works at UGR – Virtual mobility
MOVINTER – Enhancing Virtual Mobility to foster institutional
cooperation and internationalisation of curricula
http://movinter.eu
- Collaboration EU-LAC (extending EHEA)
- (Virtual) Mobility
- Policy

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Current work: OER & MOOC – online communities
Students with:
Virtual mobility
http://abierta.ugr.es
Free online courses
Social learning
Lifelong learning
For all
2K students (everyone) in two weeks !
Interested and motivated!
Follow at Twitter #abiertaUGR

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Thanks!
http://madrid2013.bolognaexperts.net/
Slides available at:
http://www.slideshare.net/mgea/mobiblog-case-study