This presentation was shared at the OER15 Conference in Cardiff. It showcases the work of eMundus Project, an EU-funded project promoting open practice and institutional collaboration.

1. At the intersection of open practice and
institutional collaboration: eMundus Project
Terese Bird, Educational Designer, School of Medicine
OER15 Conference, Cardiff, 15 April 2015

2. http://www.emundus-project.eu

5. The Atlas
http://www.emundusatlas.org

6. Countries

7. Initiatives

8. The Exploratorium

9. Scenarios in the Exploratorium

10. This presentation will look at examples of MOOC credit and
collaboration from around the world, offering insight to
educators and decision-makers considering how these may
benefit their students and institutions.
OPEN
EDUCATIONAL
PRACTICE
INSTITUTIONAL
COLLABORATION
eMundus
eMundus Project:
(http://www.emundus-project.eu)
Intersection of ‘open’
and ‘institutional collaboration’

11. eMUNDUS
Mapping & promoting examples falling within the
intersections
OPEN
PRACTICE
INSTITUTIONAL
COLLABORATION
TECHNOLOGY
– VIRTUAL
MOBILITY

12. Recent exercise for Open Ed Week 2015 webinar:
Looking for these intersection cases
(webinar recording: http://tinyurl.com/mooccreditcases)
MOOC INSTITUTIONAL
COLLABORATION
CREDIT

13. How might MOOC collaboration
benefit universities?

14. How might MOOC collaboration
benefit universities?
Scenario:
Two universities offer similar, but competing,
courses. They are considering offering some aspect
of their courses free and online, in a MOOC. They
both contribute materials and labour power to run
the MOOC, which attracts many students curious
about both courses. After the MOOC is over, 20
students decide to sign up for the traditional
courses, 10 to each university. Win-win.

15. How might MOOCs offering credit
benefit universities?
Scenario:
• Students are encouraged to apply to university
allowing prior credit from community colleges
and from MOOCs offered at that university.
Students who would not have been able to
consider university without this, can now apply
and earn a degree in two years. The university
has reached new students.
• University is seen as public-spirited and forward-
thinking.

16. OERu: international collaboration, full
degrees, not free

17. wales
• Promoting the quality of Welsh higher education to the nation and internationally
• Demonstrating further the collaborative nature of higher education in Wales.
• Project Aims and Objectives
• The main aims and objectives of the project are to :
• Establish an Open Education Resources Portal
• Establish a network of Open Education Practice Champions and Promote & Embed
Open Educational Practice across the HE Sector
• Launch an all Wales sMOOC ( Short Massive Open Online Course) aimed at helping
students to survive their first few weeks in University.
• Manage and Co-ordinate the hosting of the international OER15 Conference in
Wales in April 2015
• The project is managed by Debbie Baff
• Open Education Resources & Open Educational Practice Project Manager on behalf
of the Universities Wales OER/P Expert Group
• http://www.oerwales.ac.uk/?page_id=4

18. American Council on Education
encourages credit for Coursera MOOCs
In February 2013 the American Council on Education (ACE)
recommended that its members provide transfer credit from a
few MOOC courses (Korn, 2013)
• Credit would be given on successful examination
facilitated by ProctorU which uses webcam and other
technology to watch students take online exam – for
extra cost
• “Pre-Calculus” and “Algebra” - University of California at
Irvine;
• “Introduction to Genetics and Evolution” and
Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach” -- Duke
University; ”
• “Calculus: Single Variable” --University of Pennsylvania.

19. Antioch University offers credit for
MOOC learning

20. FutureLearn Examples
with thanks to Prof Mike Sharples, Kathy Skelton, Richard Banks
• Collaborations between universities and cultural institutions
– British Broadcasting Company & University of Leeds
– British Broadcasting Company & Open University
– British Library & University of Nottingham
– British Council & University of Southampton
– Museum of Liverpool & University of Leicester
– Other kinds of collaboration - sharing best practice, data, research,
• Credit
– The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants has recognised the
Discovering Business in Society course for professional credit (passing the
exam exempts learners from the F1 exam in their accounting diploma).
– A wealth of FutureLearn courses, particularly those in the healthcare area, are
accepted and being used to count towards CPD requirements, and in some
cases courses are formally certified by the relevant professional body (e.g.
CESG, CPD Certification Service).
– Some academic partners are actively considering making completion of a
FutureLearn course a pre-requisite for their undergraduate courses or
modules.

21. Leicester FutureLearn
• Collaboration
between University
of Leicester and
Museum of
Liverpool
• ‘Taster’ of Museum
Studies MA course

22. Universities and other institutions
issuing Mozilla Open Badges
• http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/08/upshot/true-reform-in-higher-education-when-online-
degrees-are-seen-as-official.html?_r=1&abt=0002&abg=0
Image courtesy of Mozilla
Open Badges on Flickr

23. Two Universities Collaborative MOOC
• Students at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of
Utah are currently engaged in a collaborative online class, Social
Media Journalism, which combines the convenience of a MOOC
with the engagement of a medium-sized lecture — and the
completion rate is more than 95 percent. The engagement scales,
too: students at both schools, 1,300 miles apart, are taking the class
together, interacting with each other, viewing the same lesson
modules and building a news aggregation service on various social
media platforms. The difference is they get a personal instructor
and smaller groups of familiar classmates. Our next step is to add
more campuses and make this a new kind of MOOC — a network of
schools working together with the same material but with
individual instructors.
• http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2014/03/turning-a-mooc-into-a-network-of-schools-
collaborating/http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2014/03/turning-a-mooc-into-a-network-of-schools-collaborating/

24. Universities + Industries + OpenEdX
and Badges
• Collaboration with Lorena Barba's Python MOOC and Open edX
• By James Willis and Daniel Hickey
• In this post, we discuss a new collaboration between Dr. Lorena Barba and her team at George Washington
University, Open edX, IU's Center for Research on Learning and Technology, and IBL Studios. This collaboration will
implement digital badges in Dr. Barba's new MOOC, "Practical Numerical Methods with Python."
• As part of our new MacArthur-funded project, we are happy to announce a new collaboration betweenLorena
Barba and her team, Ned Batchelder and others at Open edX, IU's Center for Research on Learning and
Technology, and IBL Studios. This effort includes building in badging capability with Dr. Barba's recently-launched
massive open online course (MOOC), "Practical Numerical Methods with Python," on the Open edX platform.
The press release from George Washington University details the structure of the course and the shared teaching
responsibilities from universities in Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, and Chile. Dr. Barba is an Associate
Professor of Engineering at GW, and effort has been multiple departments. Starting this August, over 2,800
students enrolled in the course.
• http://remediatingassessment.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/collaboration-with-lorena-barbas-python.html

25. George Tech + Udacity + AT & T =
Online Masters in Computer Science

26. Share your cases with eMundus
• http://tinyurl.com/emunduscases

27. International collaboration:
Infocomm Development Authority of
Singapore and Coursera

28. http://www.makery.info/en/2014/06/07/11-000-accros-au-1er-mooc-francais-sur-
la-fabrication-numerique/
French engineering university MOOC
collaboration with local maker labs

29. Saudi Arabia: 18 universities joined to
create OER repository/MOOC platform
Announced 3 March 2015

30. Irish MOOC collaborations with industry
for free professional accreditation
In Ireland ALISON provides free online
certificate/diploma courses to two 2 million
learners worldwide. ALISON was shortlisted in June
2013 by London–based education technology
company Edxus Group and specialist media and
advisory firm IBIS Capital, as one of the 'top 20 e-
learning companies in Europe' as judged by an
expert panel.

31. The open + collaborative road ahead…
Join in the work!
Image courtesy of Matthew Fern on Flickr