the evolving model of MOOCs

Ray's Speaker Notes for University of Toronto ICHL 2013 http://learn.utoronto.ca/ichl2013/programme

http://tinyurl.com/MOOCSMaturing

Original MOOCS

• In the beginning (2007-2011) MOOCs were truly Open Educational Resources not just free - example http://sites.google.com/site/edumooc (summer 2011 UIS)

  • Cable Green - global education director of Creative Commons - says: "free is free - but open is free PLUS legal rights to reuse, revise, remix and redistribute the resources."

• Now most (not all) MOOCs are offered by for-profit entities such as Coursera and Udacity

  • Coursera https://www.coursera.org/

    • 4.3 million+ Courserians

    • 418 courses

    • 84 universities (mostly AAU)

  • Udacity https://www.udacity.com/

    • 22 courses

    • Collaborations - such as San Jose State initiative

    • Originating courses funded by Google

  • edX https://www.edx.org/

    • 28 universities plus collaboration with Stanford

    • 57 courses and collaborations with San Jose State

    • "linux of learning" - Anant Agarwal

  • iTunesU http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/

    • Thousands of courses

    • Open to all - both to create and to take

  • Canvas https://www.canvas.net/

    • More than 30 courses

    • Includes self-paced

    • From Canvas subscribers at first

    • Now open to any

  • CourseSites https://www.coursesites.com/ & Blackboard MOOC Platform

    • CourseSites = 5 sites for free to anyone

    • Blackboard MOOC platform = non-binding and available for current customers

    • MOOC Catalog

    • Seamless import from standard Blackboard

  • FutureLearn http://futurelearn.com/

    • 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

  • European Union MOOCs - OpenUpEU http://open-up.eu/

  • Udemy https://www.udemy.com/

    • 6,000 classes

    • More than 500,000 enrolled since startup in 2010

    • Entrepreneurial approach - set your own price

How Can One Keep Track of All the MOOCs?

• • MOOC aggregator:

    • http://www.class-central.com/

What are the next steps for MOOCS (three examples in the next three years)

• Daphne Koller of Coursera:

  • 5,000 courses with multiple "curricula" much like a "moderately large university" within three to five years

    • http://www.afr.com/p/national/education/coursera_billed_as_the_amazon_of_z43H3MRVetLGEQt49zjzbN

  • Issue IPO (initial public stock offering) one likely scenario to meet needs of venture capitalists who have funded Coursera

    • • Looking ahead, Koller said she thinks it’s unlikely that Coursera will seek to sell itself to an existing education company. “I’m not sure that the companies that might want to buy us would have the right goals,” she explained. “And our university agreements are very flexible. If the schools aren’t comfortable with a new direction, they could leave and go do something else. We aren’t interested in being acquired.”

      • Could a public stock offering lie ahead instead? “I don’t think we have a choice,” Koller said. “We have outside investors, and they expect a return.”

    • http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2013/07/10/coursera-hits-4-million-students-and-triples-its-funding/

• Sebastian Thrun: Udacity to become the leading 21st century university within five years

  • • http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/07/making-online-learning-faster-and-more.html

  • Relationship to Google leads one to speculate a Google University

• Georgia Tech - MOOC-delivered Masters of Computer Science

  • A new paradigm for delivery of the degree

    • http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/07/georgia_tech_s_computer_science_mooc_the_super_cheap_master_s_degree_that.html

  • $6,700 master's degree (instead of $42,000)

  • 10,000 enrollments sought for each cohort

    • if only half pay for the degree; generates $33,500,000

  • Only eight professors hired

  • Accredited, respected, building on reputation with AT&T and other corporate partners

MOOCs are evolving - changing - growing - defining markets and staking claims. Within three years, MOOCs will no longer be disaggregated stand-alone phenoms.

The BIG questions:

How do the rest of the universities respond to a Coursera major online university offering classes at $150 each -- to a Google University that is free and advertising supported -- to a handful of major tier-one universities offering professional masters degrees at sub $7,000 for 13 course curriculum?

Ray is directing ACE research study of pedagogy and college credit for MOOCs:

http://www.acenet.edu/news-room/Pages/ACE-to-Forge-New-Ground-in-MOOC-Evaluation-and-Research-Effort.aspx

Ray's recent essay on this topic: http://wcetblog.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/moocs-are-maturing/

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Contact information:

Ray Schroeder

rschr1@uis.edu ~ ray@upcea.edu

@rayschroeder

Associate Vice Chancellor for Online Learning

University of Illinois Springfield

Director

UPCEA Center for Online Leadership and Strategy

https://sites.google.com/site/rayschroeder

Notes for MOOC Panel by Ray Schroeder is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.