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Ken Ronkowitz@ronkowitz Ronkowitz.com
Everybody Wants to MOOC the World
Academia and the MOOC
The New York Times said that 2012 was “the year of the MOOC”
EDUCAUSE said that they have “the potential to alter the relationship between learner and instructor and between academe and the wider community.”
Can a course where the participants and the course materials are distributed across the web and the courses are "open" and offered at no cost to a very large number of participants who do not receive institutional credit be a worthwhile venture for a college?
MOOC
MASSIVE
http://www.flickr.com/photos/neosnaps/2596044654/sizes/o/in/photostream/
OPEN
ONLINE
COURSE
“MOOC” is coined in 2008 by Dave Cormier & Bryan Alexander in response to an earlier open online course that had been designed and led by George Siemens and Stephen Downes."Connectivism and Connective Knowledge," had 25 tuition-paying students at the University of Manitoba in addition to 2300 other students from the public who took the online class free of charge for no credit.)
Some History
Pedagogically, much of the course activity, interaction and collaboration was expected to come from the participants.
2012 - Sebastian Thrun leaves his teaching position at Stanford University to start Udacity using the artificial intelligence course that he was teaching and had made freely available in 2011.
Coursera, a for-profit company that also came from Stanford roots has as of December 2012 2 million students from 196 countries who have enrolled in at least one course.
edX - a not-for-profit online education initiative using courses provided initially by MIT, Harvard, and the University of California, Berkeley.
History
First there were MOOCs…
• cMOOC
• xMOOC
• MOCC (Mid-sized Online Closed Course)
• BOOC (Big Online Open Course <500 )
• Hybrid MOOC (delivery and/or student body)
• For-profit providers (filling a vacuum)
• Accreditation…
Evolution
cMOOC versus xMOOC
networks
contentstasks
http://lisahistory.net/wordpress/2012/08/three-kinds-of-moocs/
http://ds106.us/history/
https://www.ai-class.com/
https://www.coursera.org/
connectivist
instructivist
It’s Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Duke…
Show me the money (and the credit)
Is anyone learning anything in these MOOCs?
Nice company (Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Duke…)
Potential new students and revenue
Developing new strategies for the design and teaching of online courses.
We have just started the debatePros and Cons
MOOC ProvidersFaculty Representatives
oAccreditation requires small class sizesoLarge lectures have been discredited as a teaching
tooloThe cost of undergraduate education has been
going down; the drivers for tax and tuition increases are administrative, athletic, and research costs
oAutomation might mean that the “Haves” attend residential colleges & the “Have-Nots” get online education & the “Have-Nothings” receive neither due to lack of technology and Internet access.
oPeer-to-peer assistance may work in elite universities but community college and state university students need professional assistance
•Cost = $1 per class per student
•A/B testing gain be done as fast as Amazon gives feedback to users
•Peer to peer assistance compensates for large class sizes
•Mentors can be provided @$
Reboot CaliforniaODG-COT Discussion
January 2013
Stakeholders & Roles
Faculty
Designers
Institution - Administration
Support• IT, Help Desk, Admissions, Online Learning
Students
And any blend of the above…
It is truly worldwide
Autonomie, diversité, liberté, interactivité
Ces conditions sont les conditions d'un dialogue constructif…
et sont donc les principes de conception d'un MOOC
La Condition Semantique
http://itforum.coe.uga.edu/paper92/paper92.html
Autonomy, diversity, openness, interactivity
These conditions are the conditions for a constructive dialogue…
And are thus the design principles for a MOOC
The Semantic Condition
http://itforum.coe.uga.edu/paper92/paper92.html
6,000 Courses for Lifelong Learners
myeducationpath.com/courses has 6000 coursesAnd is one of lesser known MOOC providersserendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/2744-MOOC-Providers.html
We want to further the conversation amongst educators…
A massive (well, Big) open (free) Online Course (actually, more of a conversation) on MOOCs in Academia
April 15 – May 12
Academia & the MOOC
Register at www.canvas.net
Ken Ronkowitz@ronkowitz Ronkowitz.com
Everybody Wants to MOOC the World
Academia and the MOOC