Reimagining Education

Anant Agarwal

edX.org

@agarwaledu

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edX.org is a Non-Profit Founded by Harvard and MIT

Expand access to

qualityeducation

Advance research

Improve on-campus

education

Expanding Access

Expand access to

qualityeducation

Advance research

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Improve on-campus

education

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6MM Learners 196+ All Countries

20MMCourse Enrollments

750 Courses

English, French,

Mandarin, Hindi

~100Institutions

200+ Blended Classes

15,000+ Enrollments

The edX Impact

155,000 Students Enrolled in First Course

7,157

Passed Course and Certified8,240

Scored on the Final9,318

Passed the Mid-Term10,547

Scored on the Mid-Term26,349

Scored on First Problem Set

154,763

Registered for 6.002x

Circuits and Electronics

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69,221

Looked at first Pset95,000

Looked at something

Who are edX learners?

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Credentialing and Course Sequences

Verified

Certificates of

Achievement

60% pass

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Powered by

Lagunita.Stanford.edu

“…this summer Lektorium

opened a course, intended to

develop Russian community of

OpenedX users” –

www.lektorium.tv

Russian National Online Platform Openedu.ru

Launched Sep 14, 2015 Powered by

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Courses

Accelerating Open edX Adoption Worldwide

2000 Courses

150 Sites in

multiple

languages

*Likely order of magnitude more courses on sites we do not know about

Advancements in improving education

Expand access to

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Advance research

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Anatomy of an edX Online Class – Active Learning

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Learning and retention is related to

the depth of mental processing.-Craik and Lockhart 1972

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Instant Feedback

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Green checkmark has reached meme status

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Numeric

Formula

String

Image

input

Can use regexp to

validate answer

Student selects point on image

Rich Problem Types

Drag and drop

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Virtual Labs and Gamification

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Virtual Labs and Gamification

MOOCs Get Personal

MOOC evolution

Team mates

MOOCs Get PersonalTeams and Cohorts

Teachers Alumni Co-Workers

Geography Friends Language

Improving on Campus Education– Blended LearningSan Jose State University

FALL 2012 COMPARED TO SPRING 2012

Course retake rates drop from 41% to 9%

Success in Spr 2013, Fall 2013, Spr 2014 too

Source: San Jose State University Davidson College of Engineering 2

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9 out of 10 MIT

undergrads

have used edX

on campus

Fall 2013: 3.091r - Solid State Chemistry

•Prof. Michael Cima experimented with online assessments with instant feedback

•MIT “The Tech” Nov 5, 2013. Freshman 5th week flag - 29 in 2012, 2 in 2013!

On campus use

Advancing Research

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quality education

Advance research

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Philip Guo (pg@edx.org)

How long should videos be?

Four edX math/science/CS courses in Fall 2012

Across MIT, Harvard, Berkeley courses

862 videos

5,265,833 watching sessions

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Lots of replays

Video views

Video replays

Instructor dashboard

A/B Testing Allows Instructors to Improve Course

Group A: Text Lesson

Group B: Video Lesson

50%

50%

Common IntroCommon Assessment

Student event logs show

relative performance and

engagement of each

group.

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Imagining the Future of Higher Ed

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Why bundle university into 4 years, starting at age 18

Is the future of university unbundled, blended?

MIT MicroMastersModular Credential + Credit on Admission

October 13

MOOCs for college credit

First student gets

credit: October 2015

GFA announced:

April 2015

First course starts:

August 2015

Miguel, 40

Portugal

Earned

Credit

“The College Education Game Just Got Changed.”

“The only upfront cost will be $45 a course for an identity-verified

certificate. Altogether, eight courses and a year of credit will cost

less than $6,000.”

“The latest in a head-spinning series of technological innovations for

higher education since the emergence of MOOCs in 2011 and 2012.”

“One of most potentially disruptive initiatives in education.”

On the Global Freshman Academy from edX and ASU

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Learning and retention is related to

the depth of mental processing.-Craik and Lockhart 1972

Anatomy of an edX Online Class – Active Learning

Blended Learning PilotCommunity College

Community College Students

scored an average of 10 points

higher than MOOC students on

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On being “replaced”: "My students would never got

through the course without our hands-on help and in-

class support and project work. The blended format really

allows for more personalized and project-based

instruction in-class."

Jaime L'Heureux

Asst. Professor, Bunker Hill Community College

Blended Berkeley Campus ExperienceSPOC (small private online course)

Accommodate increased demand by 4X in SW Eng course

Autograders improve TA leverage, fulfill student request for more

practice, stronger design projects

Course ratings up

~800 instructors worldwide

passed MOOC; 8 now

using SPOC & book

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Fall 09 Fall 10 Spr 12 Fall 12

Enrollment

Instructor Rating

Course Rating

Blended

introduced

Courtesy Armando Fox

Custom grading

Drag and drop

Embedded tools

Author supplies Python

script to return grade +

comment

Student drags components

to correct location

Embed HTML/JS or LTI tools

for rich interactions. edX

framework supports

persistent state and custom

grading

Richer Problem Types

External

graders

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Institution-supplied

external grading

server

Request next student

submission from edX

Receive submission +

grading payload

(expected solution)

Run tests, return

grade + relevant

diagnostics for student

Even Richer Problem Types

Peer Learning

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Group A content

Group B content

Simple, Graphical Authoring of A/B Tests

A/B Testing Allows Instructors to Improve Course

Group A: Text Lesson

Group B: Video Lesson

50%

50%

Common IntroCommon Assessment

Student event logs show

relative performance and

engagement of each

group.

Research Data – Learner Events on edX

* Not including data from first run of 6.002x

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Platform Velocity thru Community Contributions

Stanford: Adaptive hinting,

eCommerce, OLI integration

Google: Single sign on,

Instant Hangouts

Berkeley: Forums 2.0

MIT: Equations, many

problem types, CCX

Harvard: Annotation, edX-

Campus LMS Integration

Tsinghua: Intl. support

Edraak: Right to left

UQ: LTI

edX Mobile App

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Analytics tracked even when disconnected

Students who were

able to press a

continue button to go

on to the next segment

performed better…-Mayer 2003

J. Educational Computing Research

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Self-Paced Learning