Special Track
About MOOCs, SPOCs, and other OCs
Focus
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have dramatically increased awareness and interest of the use of technology in educational settings. It is not that the technology used in MOOCs is radically different than what has been used before, but the design decisions taken and the impact have made the world reflect. While it is still unclear what the long-term impact will be, universities are embracing the wave, but are also using MOOC technology in other different contexts. The term SPOC (Small Private Online Courses) refers to the use of MOOC technology in residential closed education. Many other uses and variations are coming up as well.
The objective of the Special Session is to discuss the use and application of MOOC technology with its original intention, but also in other forms that might be of interest. This Special Session at IEEE EDUCON 2014 is organized by the eMadrid Excellence Network funded by the Government of the Region of Madrid emadridnet.org.
Topics
Submissions are welcome on the following topics and other ones always related to the theme of last generation Online Courses:
- Relation of MOOCs to Open Educational Resources
- MOOC technology
- Learning analytics, gamification
- Extensions of MOOC platforms and integration with other tools
- MOOC pedagogies
- Flipping the classroom and other pedagogies
- SPOCs
- Experiences
- Future prospects
- Impact on university organization
Program Committee
- Carlos Delgado Kloos, Univ. Carlos III de Madrid, Spain (Chair)
- Óscar M. Bonastre, Univ. Miguel Hernández, Spain
- Paolo Bottoni, Univ. "Sapienza" di Roma, Italy
- Manuel Castro, UNED, Spain
- Ruth Cobos, Univ. Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
- Baltasar Fernández-Manjón, Univ. Complutense de Madrid, Spain
- Clara Fernández Vara, New York University, USA
- Jesús M. González Barahona, Univ. Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
- Terry Hanna, Southern Regional College, UK
- Juan de Lara, Univ. Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
- Russ Meier, Milwaukee School of Engineering, USA
- Pedro Muñoz-Merino, Univ. Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
- Abelardo Pardo, Univ. of Sydney, Australia
- Nelson Piedra, Univ. Técnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador
- Gregorio Robles, Univ. Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
- Miguel Rodríguez-Artacho, UNED, Spain
- Pilar Sancho Thomas, Univ. Complutense de Madrid, Spain
- Edmundo Tovar Caro, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Publications
All accepted papers will appear in the EDUCON2014 proceedings, published by IEEE and listed in IEEE Xplorer, and submitted to Scopus for evaluation.
Important Dates
| 01 Oct 2013 | Abstract Submission |
| 18 Oct 2013 | Invitations to Submit Complete Paper |
| 11 Nov 2013 | Complete Paper Submission |
| 18 Nov 2013 | Work-in-Progress Complete Paper Submission |
| 16 Dec 2013 | Notification of Acceptance |
| 31 Jan 2014 | Author Registration and Payment Deadline |
| 28 Feb 2014 | Deadline submission camera-ready final paper |
| 3-5 Apr 2014 | EDUCON2014 |