Post on 06-May-2015
description
MOOCsalternative education
Iulian ȘerbănoiuJune 2014 - Brașov Tech Meetup
About me
Iulian Șerbănoiu - Software developer
undergraver
on
MOOC is ...
MassiveOnlineOpenCourse
some MOOC providers
it started in 2012 *
More at: http://edutechnica.com/moocmap/#* 2012- Year of the MOOC[1]
and keeps growing
and keeps growing
and keeps growing
MOOC structure
● Lectures (usually video)● Homeworks● Discussions (forums)● Announcement board
● Wiki (collaborative platform)● Quizzes● Virtual Office Hours● External resources (eg GitHub,
Youtube)● Surveys● Statement of accomplishment● Certifications (not always)
Typical Extra
MOOC structure
Benefits for “students”
● Easy access *
● Your own pace
● In touch with the big world
● Modern way of teaching
● Diversity and various approaches
● Time zones become irrelevant
* even though payment will be needed sometimes
Disadvantages
● Less interactiono virtual office hours/forums may help
● High “dropout” rateo no fear of getting expelledo periodic announcements may help
● Not yet on par with university courseso most people still think with pen & papero new teaching methods needed
● Prerequisites not always defined● Not suitable for all type of courses
Challenges for providers
● Identity verificationo coursera [7]o edX [8]o Udacity [10]
● Making it profitable (*)● Converting MOOCs into college credits,
toward earning degree [11]● Intellectual Property
* Even with donations (like edX and Khan Academy)
Benefits for universities
Lectures used even before MOOCs for publicity:
● MIT (with OCW)● Stanford● Berkeley ● Caltech● ...
New/unique possibilities
Leveraging the power of Internet
First trans institutional course [5]
New/unique possibilities
Leveraging the power of Internet
Automate the automatable
forced to automate because of
“Massive”
● assignment auto-verification
● peer review of homeworks
after deadlineSee [6] for the full list
Course preparation and handling
● A lot of effort for preparing high quality
videos [3]
● Huge effort in managing the MOOC [3]
o support for issues is time consuming
● Many limitations of the MOOC platform[3]
Course experience
● A lot of time required (maybe even 6-10h / week for one course)o watching videos & processing informationo working on assignments
● Platform limitationso automated test platforms don’t always
work well● Your effort may be rewarded
Course experience
● A lot of time required (maybe even 6-10h / week for one course)o watching videos & processing informationo working on assignments
● Platform limitationso automated test platforms don’t always
work well● Your effort may be rewarded
Future?
MOOCs?
Education as a Service (EaaS)? [4]
Only few universities? [13]
“In 50 years [...] there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one of them. [Sebastian] Thrun just has to plot the right course.”
References[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/education/edlife/massive-open-online-courses-are-multiplying-at-a-rapid-pace.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1& [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSxqpaCCPvY&t=50m45s [3] http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/~schmidt/PDF/POSA-MOOC.pdf [4] http://venturebeat.com/2014/05/11/education-as-a-service-5-ways-higher-ed-must-adapt-to-a-changing-market/ [5] http://blog.coursera.org/post/74257050344/a-trans-institution-specialization-on-mobile-cloud [6] http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/~schmidt/posa-mooc-countries.txt [7] https://www.coursera.org/signature/guidebook/certificate [8] https://www.edx.org/verified-certificate [9] http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/10/2/edx-id-verified-certificates/ [10] https://www.udacity.com/faq#section-0-5 [11] http://www.mooc2degree.com/ [12] http://blog.udacity.com/2014/06/announcing-nanodegrees-new-type-of.html [13] http://www.wired.com/2012/03/ff_aiclass/all/1
Resourceshttp://openclipart.org/detail/19110/virtual-school-cloud-by-jjfbbennetthttp://search.creativecommons.org/http://pambuccian.com/2014/06/01/why-i-designed-the-online-live-learning-and-livetutoring/ http://openclipart.org/detail/172105/user-identity-by-lpr577-172105 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use http://openclipart.org/detail/159643/thank-you-pinned-by-juliobahar http://openclipart.org/detail/177461/mike-the-mic-question-by-bibbleycheese-177461
Alternatives:http://www.wikipedia.org/ http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Pagehttp://www.wikiversity.org/http://ocw.mit.eduhttp://ocw.cs.pub.ro/ http://www.youtube.com/ (university video recordings)