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Case Studies: MOOCS with language learning components

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Case studies presentation: "MOOCs with language learning components addressed to refugees". Seminar "How Relevant is Open Education for Refugees?", EDEN 2017 a...

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Have initiative for refugees successfully connected the dots (context and needs)? Do MOOCs offer products or services that refugees are looking for in terms of LL? (from group 1)

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Have initiative for refugees successfully connected the dots (context and needs)? Do MOOCs offer products or services that refugees are looking for in terms of LL? (from group 1)

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- Need to be familiar with the offer to be able to answer the question. As a group, we don’t know much about this, and probably the refugees and RSGs don’t know either.
- Accreditation is important, which is not currently available. In a country the refugees need courses offered by institutions there so that they can be recognized in a way that is useful there. This is not yet available, and companies don’t offer this.
- Refugees need to be psychologically strong and very motivated and goal oriented to think about their education. Difficult for them given their circumstances.
- The refugees already in a country can help new ones to know about the existing initiatives.
- Basic language courses (A1 level) need to be bilingual. A lot of don’t speak English, difficult for A1 level courses.
- Welcome App connects refugees Swedish people.

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more then MOOCs needed related to high drop out rates - MOOCs are only part of solution

Making large impact - even Kiron as large scale only connected to 1100 refugess

Need clear outcomes - benefits for them refugees

Pathway to jobs - allignment with regional companies

Pathway to formal qualification - MOOCs should be part of formal education (but then financial barriers might arise given high)

Guidelines to many material / courses

Mentoring

Study groups and online/f2f communities

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Availability free online right away

A lot of topics and materials

Possibility of Online and f2f communities and study groups on same topic, language and cultural background

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1.We doubt this, still fragmented offerings, not experts in the field

After leaving the language schools the students are  ”fit” for living in the country/society, but they still lack knowledge about the HE learning system, how to access the labour market….

Practical hinder: Sometimes even language school have no computers!

2. Refugees often use mobile phone, possibility: developing digital learning tools for bus drivers,

maybe not necessary focusing on writing skills in the first place,

Obstacle for language learning: Sometimes good in written language but not in spoken

Refugees need to find adequate resources

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Wide audience of kind refugees

How to reach them

Who need what kind of help/education

Awareness of possibilities of open education

Language barrier

How to guide them through the many material and courses

How to help in studying - building study groups - peer feedback - mentoring

Channel to recognised courses

Computer and internet connection (free wifi ad laptop offered)

How to recognise their experience / capabilities of refugees

Recognition of open education by formal education programs of by (local) companies to recognise their skills/knowledge

Allocation refugees to those areas where there is shortage of jobs and skills

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Connecting refugees, mentors and companies in the Netherlands: www.refugeetalenthub.com/
https://www.vu.nl/nl/nieuws-agenda/nieuws/2016/okt-dec/vu-draagt-bij-aan-matching-vacatures-en-stages-met-vluchtelingen.aspx
Initiatives of VU University Amsterdam, Municipality, UAF to support refugee students in studying: https://www.vu.nl/nl/nieuws-agenda/nieuws/2015/jan-mrt/meer-kansen-voor-vluchtelingstudenten-in-amsterdam.aspx

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Basic course teaching generel med join us

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Navigate the net
Guide to navigate MOOCs

Language barrier

Basics of new country is needed

Info about Socio-Cultural integration

Chats with native people to learn things

Match with similar professionals and Swedes Mitt livs

Legal advice?

Title Homologation?

Coaching?

Going to an actual camp doing the homework properly

Heterogeneity inside the refugee community (diversity inside diversity) Digital literacy?

Access and connectivity

Face-to face encounters. Do they want?

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•Have initiatives for refugees successfully connected the dots by understanding refugees’ context and needs? (e.g. the real working world in a country for job seekers)

•Do MOOCs offer products or services that refugees are looking for in terms of language learning?

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Obstacles:
- community feeling
- interaction
- how to reach the refugees? How to inform them about the available offer?
- are we awar of digital network/spaces where refugees interact with each other?
- how to get in contact with refugees?
- getting in contact with/ address the right target group as refugees represent a very diverse group
- are the available open education suitable for refugees? Are the open education courses addressing the right needs?
- relevant education --> who are the appropriate groups/persons/organisations to tell? How to make sure? Where to start?
- do refugees want open education?
- level of digital literacy

Benefits:
- flexibility of open education --> helping regarding host-country obligations
- cheaper than traditional classroom in the university
- more possibility
-  enables refugees to quickly  start
- MOOCs reflect the existing education system in their new country

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+ MOOCs could be better than OERs.
+ A network to coordinate the effort and help the refugees actually find about what is available would be good.
+ Good to educate volunteers (or refugees who have been there for a time) to help ones that only just arrived.
+ Mobile devices could be very useful.
+ RSGs would have a key role in the MOOCs
+ Example projects and initiatives: minclusion and nyanlanda

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- Who is going to get the resources to the refugees?
- Do the refugees accept MOOCs as being culturally acceptable and relevant?
- They don’t like async connections.
- Cultural adjustments are a problem: they arrive in crisis and it takes time for their attitude to change.
- Very heterogeneous group, difficult to target them all.
- We have to identify different target groups for the MOOCs

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Question 1 What are the main benefits and obstacles of using open education to provide relevant education for refugees?

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Question 1 What are the main benefits and obstacles of using open education to provide relevant education for refugees?