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:

• Manatunga, K., Hernández-Leo, D., (2016) PyramidApp: Scalable Method Enabling Collaboration in the Classroom. Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2016, Lyon, France, September 2016, pp 422-427.
• Manatunga, K., Hernández-Leo, D., (2016) A Multiple Constraints Framework for Collaborative Learning Flow Orchestration, International Conference on Web-Based Learning, Rome, Italy, LNCS (vol 10013), Springer, 225-235.

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