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The Educator Experience - FutureLearn Workshop

In the context of the Education Data Science project, UPF hosted the FutureLearn Academic Network meeting, themed “The Educator Experience”, here at UPF successfully on 27th, January,2017. The meeting was co-organized by FutureLearn, the UPF Center for Learning Innovation & Knowledge (CLIK, directed by Manel Jiménez) and the Learning Technologies research team in GTI, coordinated by Davinia Hernández-Leo. See #BarcelonaFLAN in twitter!

The event started with an inspiring keynote by Professor Sir Timothy O’Shea, Principal & Vice-Chancellor, University of Edinburgh, who explained Edinburgh’s MOOC strategy, including producing 64 online Masters courses.

As part of this workshop, results on research carried out by the project were presented:

  • Reformulating Learning at Scale, MOOC research at UPF (slides)
  • A Social Learning Grid for MOOCs: Exploring a FutureLearn Case (slides)
  • Towards Data-driven Group Formation Support in MOOCs (slides)

The recent results presented build on previous work such as:

More information on the event at Davinia Hernández-Leo's webpage and the group's web. Pictures of the event available here.