3.SEA MOOCS Meeting Jakarta DDPD final

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ICT MOOCS in Southeast Asia: Trends and
Challenges
by Dr Ethel Agnes P Valenzuela
SEAMEO Secretariat
Ciputra Hotel
13-14 December 2016
Jakarta, Indonesia

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Outline of presentation
n Overview

trends in Education in the 21st
century

n Major

n MOOCS, ODELs

n Remaining

and OERs

Challenges

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Overview of MOOCS
n Massive

Open and On-line Courses
(MOOCS) – innovator driver for improving
education

n MOOCS

provide support to accessing
quality higher education and training


n MOOCS

is a new learning pathway towards
tertiary education and lifelong learning
(Qingdao Declaration, May 2015)

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Overview of MOOCS
n  Massive

Open and Online Courses (MOOCS) –
Learning without borders

n  Within

a year it was launched- it attracted 3.1
million users

n  Enrolment


in MOOCS as 35 million

n  The

MOOCS offer more than 4,200 by more
than 500 universities

n  Coursera

leads in enrolment (35%) followed
by edX (18%)

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Overview of MOOCS
n  Promotes

interactive learning environment


n  Participative

pedagogy

n  Collaborative

learning

n  Courses

have modules with application oriented
activities

n  Means

and OERs

n  Assessment

is automatic scoring, self- assessment,

peer assessment, and peer grading

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MOOCS Trend in Asia
(Mun Horn Cheah, 2016 UniSIM)

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MOOCS in Asia
n  Over 70 open universities with large(st) adult learners and
growing
n  Most popular providers – Udacity, Coursea, edX, Open2Study,
FutureLearn, Rwag, Iversity, FUN and Edraak

n 

MOOCS in developing world
n  Over 80% have only basic ICT skills
n  30% completed the course

n  Women are more likely to complete the MOOCS and get
certification
n  Main motivations: gain specific job skills (61%) Preparing for
further education (39%) and obtaining professional certification
( 37%)

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MOOCS in Singapore
(Mun Horn Cheah, 2016 UniSIM)
n SkillsFuture

– promotion of credits ($500)
n Study awards – from early to mid careers
($5000)
n Mid-career enhancement (90% of course
fee)
n Earn and Learn- designed programmes
for learning while working
n Some MOOCS courses are recognized for

undergraduate courses

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MOOCS in Singapore
n 

Institute for Adult Learning
n 
n 

n 

Focus on raising capacity of workers through CET
Partnership with Canvas and Udemy to build up and deliver
MOOC offering

Findings
1. 


Periodic consultation has high participation

2. 
3. 

Assessment is important
Participants should be well prepared for the activity

4. 

Clarity of roles of the facilitator

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Open and Distance Learning in the
Philippines
n 

Republic Act No. 10650, entitled “An Act Expanding Access to
Educational Services by Institutionalizing Open Distance

Learning in Levels of Tertiary Education and Appropriating
Funds Therefor,” otherwise known as the “Open Distance
Learning Act,” approved on December 9, 2014, and which
took effect on December 24, 2014

n 

The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) through its
Technical Panel for Distance Education, the Technical
Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), with
the assistance of the University of the Philippines Open
University (UPOU), hereby issued the implementing rules
and regulations (IRR) which were approved.

TNE Milestone
Issues and Challenges
2005

2003


2008

MORATORIUM
CMO No. 6 s. CMO No. 27
2003
S 2005
DE
Level III

2015

2016
2014

MORATORIUM LIFTED

CMO No. 2 s. 2008

R.A. 10650
ODeL Law


Proposed TNE PSG

Government
Recognition Only

Level III ODeL Law

Level III

-Diploma Mill Abroad
-Low Quality
Graduation
Limited the
Access of
qualified
providers

2012

-Raised Quality Provision Equivalency Internal Quality
System/DE Quality Framework
-More
Internationalization
-COE/COD
-Non recognition by
-Autonomous Deregulated
Foreign authorities in
- High Quality with ICT
(Thailand, Turkey, China,
▪ Transitory and Development
Vietnam, (UK),
- -Accessible
Process
OPPORTUNITIES
Education
To achieve
-Created high demand
1) Improve Quality Reputation
( SUCs, Hong Kong,
2) Harmonization(DE/ODeL/
Vietnam, Korea)
TNE)
3) Developmental

Indonesia MOOCs
MOOC
web

Material
Presentati
on

Partners
Support

Popularity (fans) in social media
Visitor
Estimation* Facebook Twitter Instagra Youtub Total
m
e
Fans

CodeSaya

Teks &
Interaktif

Digital Ocean 67,300

1,620

1,279

0

0

2,899

FOCUS
Fisipol
UGM

Teks &
Video

BCA

836

0

0

0

0

0

edX,
HarvardX,
IDX, ITB, ITS,
NET, Rumah
Perubahan,
UI, UNAIR,
UNPAD, UT

141,200

197,580

47,261

1,975

560

247,376

Teks &
Video



45,200

0

0

0

0

0

Video



17,100

3,017

1,106

692

13,463 18,278

Teks &
Video



44,300

6,974

3,952

10,400

0

Indonesia Teks &
X
Video

MOOCs
Univ.
Terbuka
Sibejoo
UCEO
Univ.
Ciputra

*April–Juni 2016 according to similarweb.com
Source: https://kampusunj.com/situs-kuliah-online/?
utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AnakKampusUnj+
%28Anak+Kampus+UNJ%29&utm_content=FaceBook

21,326

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It is all about MOOCs

MOOCs as a
catalyst

Effectiveness of
MOOCs

Simulation

Teaching and
learning

Potentials of
MOOCs

Learning styles

Quality higher
education

Democratisation of
access

Pre and post
assessment

Pedagogies

High-quality
content

Leverage

Feedback

Teachers
competencies

Languages

Assessment

Recognition

Transfer of credits

Access

Equity

Capacity buidling

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Challenges on MOOCS - Pedagogy
n 

Massive and low teaching involvement

n 

High heterogenity of learners

n 

High variation of maturity

n 

Responsiveness to student feedback

n 

Lack of understanding in how students are engaged in
MOOCS

n 

Failure to understand content and no one to turn to for help

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Challenges on MOOCS:
Assessment
n Lack

of assessment for learning

n Assessment

options is limited

n Authentication

( this is still a
challenge- learning and certification)

n Module

content and OERs

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Challenges – MOOCS
credentialing and recognition
n 

Survey by Chronicle in Higher Education says that 72% of
MOOCS has no credit recogntion

n 

No central body or standards for accreditation

n 

Absence of a Benchmark for certification

n 

Skills recognition

n 

Less than 5% in India and Singapore strongly agree that
MOOCS are accepted in Job market

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2. Moving Forward SEA MOOCS:
Rethinking Education in SEA

•  Initial meeting of
SEAMEO member
countries on MOOCS

1

2
•  Case Studies on SEA
MOOCS
•  Policy audit/inventory
•  Policy Brief for
SEAMEC

•  Establishment of SEA
MOOCS Network
•  Sharing of good
practices

3

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of SEAMEO member

countries on MOOCS
n  Context
n  Policy

Landscape

n  Diversity

of MOOCS in higher education and
lifelong learning

n  Good

practices

n  Innovation

& Trends

n  Remaining

Challenges

n 

Regional response (Exec Summary and anlaysis)

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Phase 2. Case Studies

n 

Education
AGENDA

Higher
Education

Lifelong
Learning

Research Framework
n  Umbrella topics
n  Awareness and Training
n  Infrastructure
n  QA and Accreditation
n  Ownership
n  Adoption
n  Exercise Economy
n  Ne size Fits all
n  Student engagement

Proposed Roadmap

2017

2016

2018

2016-2018

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Online
survey/
mapping
the
MOOCS
landscape

Case Studies

Synthesis
Report for
policymakers

Policy
Dialogue
for high
level
officials

Community
of Practice
(COP)

-webex
-MOOCS
calendar

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