The University as a Cloud: Openness in Education

Charles SeveranceUniversity of MichiganSchool of Information

http://www.dr-chuck.com/@drchuck

https://www.coursera.org/course/insidetheinternet

Quick Questions

https://www.coursera.org/course/insidetheinternet

Nuthin' But Net

Internet: TCI

• Number of seats in the UM Football Stadium: 109, 901

• Number of students signed up for IHTS: 45572

• Number of IHTS students completing quiz 1: 11640

• University of Michigan Undergraduate Degrees (appx): 6,600

• Number of students who took the IHTS Final: 5401

• Number of IHTS certificates: 4595

• Students in SI502 this Fall: 152

Survey Data (n=4701)

• Is this your first online class?

• 2262 - Yes 2534 - No

• Is this your first large, free, online course (i.e. MOOC)?

• 3101 - Yes 1687 - No

• Are you currently a student in a school or college?

• 1299 - Yes 3483 - No

Survey Data (n=4701)

• Are you currently a teacher?

• 602 - Yes 4173 - No

• Are you thinking about reusing this material for your own course?

• 727 - Yes 2022 - No

• What is your gender?

• 3217 - Male 1521 - Female

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My Goals For the Course

Be an Introductory Course

• We need low-stakes "pre-requisite" courses in Coursera

• How to behave

• How to use the software

• How to write

• Figure out technical issues

• How to learn from others and help others learn....

Be an Open Learning Community

• Open Source works well when there is a "Benevolent Dictator"

• There needs to be real and enforced rules - but as few as possible

• Those in power must not hide behind their power and must share their power with those who show the right behavior

• Must make valued behaviors "infectious" / "amplified"

Teach the Teachers

• I don't beleive that all students in the world should consider me their teacher in this space

• I wrote a "book"- I want others to adopt it and re-mix it

• Related to making a "learning community"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6zlQZcM72o

New York NY, Los Angeles, Ann Arbor MI, Wilmington, NC,

Chicago, Washington, DC, Memphis, TN, Seattle WA, Seoul, Barcelona,

London, AmsterdamManila

Cheating Detection Experiment

• Thirty question exam

• Ten questions gave full credit for some wrong answers

• Total number of possible 30/30 answer keys = ~60,000

• Tracked the pattern of answer keys over the two-week exam period

Why?

1996

2002

Why Now?

Why Now?

2012

http://chronicle.com/article/How-an-Upstart-Company-Might/133065/

Coursera'sPlans?

http://chronicle.com/article/Document-Examine-the-U-of/133063/

• Charging for certificates

• Serving as matchmaker between companies and students

• Selling courses to community colleges

• Give course on campus and pay Coursera to support services

• Charge for secure assessments

• All these are just ideas....

http://chronicle.com/article/Document-Examine-the-U-of/133063/

Why do Stanford, Michigan, Princeton, etc. do this for free?

IBM RS-6000

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/08/02/conventional-online-universities-consider-strategic-response-moocs

https://www.coursera.org/course/fantasysf

Value to the Professors?

What is Next?

Concerns

• There cannot be "one" vendor for these course materials

• Closed Source - Slow Innovation

• Lost sight of the move to Open Educational Resources

• Remixability / translation / localiation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY-Ogkc7Mnw

IMS Learning Tools Interoperability

Open Source - Open Standards

• Open Source Course Authoring Environment

• Open Source Open Book Authoring Environment

• Open Source MOOC run-time Environment based on standards

• Truly open and remixable educational resources

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http://online.dr-chuck.com/

What do these have in common?

Books

Video Tapes

Television

CD-ROM

Video Disk

DVD Player

MOOCThe Web

The Internet

Thank you.

https://www.coursera.org/course/insidetheinternetCourse Starts: March 1, 2013