Abstract
The European ECO project tests the hypothesis that intercreativity and interculturality in MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are key factors for removing barriers to new teaching–learning processes. These two elements are understudied and undertheorized in most research about MOOCs. The ECO project proposes a new model named sMOOC (social MOOCs), based on constructivist and connectivist pedagogical theories that foster intercreativity and interculturality. Participants from six European countries and their attendant linguistic and cultural zones (Spanish-speaking and French-speaking world mostly) become the protagonists of their own learning, building their knowledge through collaboration and participation in different virtual platforms and social networks. The transnationally produced and shared sMOOC “Step by Step” serves as a learning practice experience which fosters interculturality in conjunction with intercreativity. It is analyzed as a case study to examine the main characteristics of online collaboration, in particular support, engagement, diversity, loss of control and internal policing. The results confirm the presence of such characteristics that are instrumental in the creation of collective intelligence in constant coordination. Additionally, strong cognitive processes are at work: interventional or accidental focus, empathy, tolerance to error, decentring, tolerance to ambiguity, presence to self and identity construction.
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Since the first session, a new sMOOC has been created in ECO «working in multidisciplinary teams» offered by POLIMI, www.ecolearning.eu.
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We would like to thank the European Commission for believing in our project, and all our partners in the ECO project for their teamwork in seeking to build another way of educating, and other ways of building knowledge consistent with the demands of today’s society.
Special thanks go to all the participants in the ECO project, who form a learning community in which different cultures and languages coexist, and who are engaged in this important collective work of intercreative teaching and learning practices. The ECO project is empowering many people who are becoming co-authors of the culture of their time through the educommunicative environments in which they interact.
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Osuna-Acedo, S., Frau-Meigs, D., Camarero-Cano, L., Bossu, A., Pedrosa, R., Jansen, D. (2017). Intercreativity and Interculturality in the Virtual Learning Environments of the ECO MOOC Project. In: Jemni, M., Kinshuk, Khribi, M. (eds) Open Education: from OERs to MOOCs. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-52925-6_9
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