Center for Online Learning, Research & Service - University of Illinois Springfield

DESCRIPTION: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are changing how universities reach students around the global. This webinar will provide an overview of MOOCs and their emergence in recent years, as current open course delivery models such as edX, Coursera and Udacity are examined. The presenters will discuss how existing MOOCs can be used to enhance your courses and will discuss MOOC course design and delivery considerations that emerge because of their size, global-reach, and openness. Tools and technologies that can be used in the management of MOOCs will be shared, as the presenters recount their experiences and the lessons they learned while designing, developing, delivering and facilitating two MOOCs at the University of Illinois Springfield. The presentation will conclude with a look at the future of MOOCs and their implications for higher education.

What is a MOOC?

http://youtu.be/eW3gMGqcZQc

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Powerful Forces Combine to Disrupt Higher Education

(c) Ray Schroeder. 2011

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Rising Cost of Higher Ed:

http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2011/07/higher-education-bubble-college-tuition.html

Where are we today?

Coursera

3.3 million+ Courserians
338 courses
62 universities (mostly AAU)

Udacity

22 courses
Collaborations - such as San Jose State initiative
Originating courses funded by Google

edX

12 universities plus collaboration with Stanford
32 courses
"linux of learning" - Anant Agarwal

iTunesU

Thousands of courses
Open to all - both to create and to take

Canvas

More than 30 courses
Includes self-paced
From Canvas subscribers

CourseSites

Blackboard
Open version for all to create up to five courses
Seamless import from standard Blackboard

FutureLearn

Led by the UK Open University (one of the largest in the world)
Joined by ten other universities
To launch first MOOCs later this year

Udemy

6,000 classes
More than 500,000 enrolled since startup in 2010
Entrepreneurial approach - set your own price

MOOC aggregator: http://www.class-central.com/

StraighterLine: an "alternative to MOOCs"

Collaborative Projects such as SJSU with Udacity and edX

Coursera begins to generate revenue in first quarter 2013

What about those 10% completion rates?

From day one, many seek basic info and do not intend to complete
45% of those who turn in first assignment complete
70% of those who join $50 Signature Track program (protecting against fraud/cheating) complete

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/coursera-takes-a-nuanced-view-of-mooc-dropout-rates/43341

Pedagogies and Practices for Teaching the Thousands

Our Background:

Challenges:

Managing the masses
Social constructivism in six-figure classes? (http://onlinelearninginsights.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/a-tale-of-two-moocs-coursera-divided-by-pedagogy/)
Student centered
Grading the work

Strategies:

Data analytics tracing progress - structure course for analytics
Test early and often (http://phys.org/news/2013-04-online-varying-attention-note-taking-retention.html)
Peer evaluation (http://onlinelearninginsights.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/professors-pedagogy-and-moocs/)
Robo-grading of short essays (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/23/education/robo-readers-used-to-grade-test-essays.html)
Select groups to provide instructor feedback/guidance
"Meet-ups" (http://edudemic.com/2012/10/mooc-meetup-groups/)
Social media support
Volunteer tutors (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/education/harvard-asks-alumni-to-donate-time-to-free-online-course.html?hpw&_r=0)

Special (new) issues:

Marketing strategy
- University press releases - news outlets, professional organizations
- Social media campaigns - Twitter, Facebook
  - The EP MOOC announcements were tied to 150th Anniversary of the EP, the Academy Awards nominations & Black History Month
Mix of students - post-grads, grads, undergrads, secondary school students in same class
Teaching 2/3 international - up to 1/3 in other languages
- Cultural differences and translations
Selected tools & activities need to be highly scalable - Georgia Tech & Coursera MOOC Stumble
- Blogs, Twitter
Libraries working with vast numbers of students who are not licensed for some journal holdings, use of images
Student support - if a student has a technical issue, who do they call?
Badges for completion - http://openbadges.org/

What is our research?

American Council on Education Project

Taxonomy of Pedagogy - using an instrument based in part on the dimensions of pedagogy

Evaluate the pedagogical approaches in classes approved for ACE CREDIT

Collect demographic and more data on the students - who succeeds?

Track students who have completed MOOCs and granted credit at selected UPCEA member universities:

American Public University
Central Michigan University
Kaplan University
Regis University
SUNY Empire State
University of Maryland University College
Western Carolina University

What is their record? For example of you take Calculus I as a MOOC; how do you do in Calculus II at one of the selected universities?

Where might we be going?

Clayton Christensen:

“Fifteen years from now more than half of the universities will be in bankruptcy, including the state schools. In the end, I am excited to see that happen.”

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/02/07/disruption-guru-christensen-why.html?page=all

For those who may doubt Christensen...

Following the path of newspapers....

Charts and graphs and images

Newspapers by the numbers 2012

http://stateofthemedia.org/2012/newspapers-building-digital-revenues-proves-painfully-slow/newspapers-by-the-numbers/

List of defunct newspapers in the U.S.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_newspapers_of_the_United_States

.... and the PC

PC Sales Fall nearly 15% in first three months of 2013

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22103079

Coursera - agreements / possibilities