Fly Me to the MOOC,

so Call Me Maybe?

Carol Cutler-White, Dean and Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President

What a MOOC is and what a MOOC is notCarol Cutler-White, Dean and Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President

Are MOOCS the future?

• Mass adoption of distance learning to leverage expert resources.

• Individualized just in time learning approaches

• Transition to hybrid classes with less frequent campus meetings

Pew Internet and American Life Projecthttp://www.pewinternet.org/topics/Future--‐of--‐the--‐internet.aspx

Carol Cutler-White, Dean and Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President

http://studentforce.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/the-numbers-on-moocs-popularity-effectiveness-participation/

Lots of questions

Carol Cutler-White, Dean and Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President

Udacity Coursera

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Carol Cutler-White, Dean and Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President

Udacity

“Our mission is to bring accessible,

affordable, engaging, and highly effective

higher education to the world”

www.udacity.com

Carol Cutler-White, Dean and Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President

Carol Cutler-White, Dean and Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President

Why?

MOOC ContentThe Introductory Algebra Review MOOC will cover the first five math modules:

• DMA 010 – Operations with Integers

• DMA 020 – Fractions and Decimals

• DMA 030 – Proportions/Ratios Rates/Percentages

• DMA 040 – Expressions, Linear Equations, Linear Inequalities

• DMA 050 – Graphs and Equations of Lines

Carol Cutler-White, Dean and Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President

Carol Cutler-White, Dean and Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President

Wake Tech

High school student

Diagnostic test

Complete MOOC

DEM module

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Retest and enter college math or DEM

College math

MOOC as supplemen

tal

DEM MOOC Theory of Change

Carol Cutler-White, Dean and Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President

Carol Cutler-White, Dean and Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice

President

TEAMWORK

Wake Tech

faculty =Content and

student learnin

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Udacity develop

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Technical

expertise

DEMMOOC

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Carol Cutler-White, Dean and Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President

Progress to date

Early lessons

Introductory Algebra Review

It’s a nice idea, but….

Carol Cutler-White, Dean and Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President

Carol Cutler-White, Dean and Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President

Monetizing

Carol Cutler-White, Dean and Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President

www.waketech.edu search MOOC@wakegrants

Developmental Education

Math Massive

Open Online Course

(DEM-MOOC)

Carol Cutler-White, Dean and Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President