Open CoursesApril 2013

The Collaboration Network for Academia

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User Feedback

"Every day, I get more and more excited about iversity. Posting resources is ingeniously easy and very stimulating. The students, too, are really enthusiastic about iversity."Prof. Dr. Peter A. Schmitt, Universität Leipzig

Presse

more testimonials: www.iversity.org/pages/testimonials

"... the platform that is now providing for the future ." (Die Zeit)

In a Nutshell

Partner

Die Welt, Stern, Frankfurter Rundschau, DRadio Wissen, Tagesspiegel and 50+ others praise iversity. Full press coverage: http://www.iversity.org/pages/press_coverage

Partners and sponsors

Communityware (un.iversity.org)Collaboration and networking in the cross university community - now about 60.000 users from over 40 countries

Massive Open Online Courses (www.iversity.org)Fully online instruction for thousends of studentes

Summary - MOOCs in a Nutshell

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Watch the video here: http://youtu.be/U9n1wvEzUiE

Open Courses are disrupting the education market

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The New York Times, May 15, 2012 (Link)

The New York Times, May 03, 2012 (Link)

DIE ZEIT, May 31, 2012 (Link)

The Opportunity: European Open Courses

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There is a window of oportunity for professors and universities from Europe to showcase their excellence in teaching

‣ iversity is a European platform for Open Courses and a global community of professors and students.

‣ We seek to collaborate with professors and universities from all over Europe to create high quality courses that have the potential to attract tens of thousands of people.

Window of Opportunity

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1. Multimedia content (e.g. Videos)2. Feedback mechanisms (e.g. assignments and quizzes). 3. A global community of learners collaborates and discusses the content (crowd intelligence).

MOOCs - Making learning social and scalable

A new learning experience

Professors can teach thousends of students online

Building Blocks of the Platform

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Interactive Content

Collaborative and Social

Scalable

Gamification Adaptive Learning

Seamless Mobile Access

An Open Course is a set of interactive, multimedia course materials, assignments and quizzes created by an individual instructor or a team of instructors. Students form a global community of learners and support each other. Highly scalable evaluation tools such as automated and crowd-sourced assessment allow to serve tens of thousands of students in a single course.

Core Themes

Enhancements

Interactive Content Increases Student Engagement

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Students watch short video lessons .

The content is structured in short

units

Interactive Content

Benchmark: khanacademy.org

Detailed Look at Video Teaching: Endless Possibilities

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Whiteboard Videos- Teaching through socratic

dialogue using a whiteboard to illustrate ideas

- Use case: SEOmoz - Whiteboard Friday

Powerpoint Videos- Teaching using powerpoint

slide videos with recorded commentary

- Use case: Google - Conversion University

Lecture + Slides- The video recording of a

lecture is provided in sync with the relevant slides and captions

- Use case: Lecturio.de

On-the-fly Illustration- The teacher explains

individual concepts in depth using a digital canvas to spell out ideas.

- Use case: Udacity & Khan Academy

Pre-Recorded Illustration- A presentation is unpacked

by illustration. The visual narration unfolds in sync with the narrative.

- Use case: RSA Animate

Animation- A presentation is unpacked

by animation. The visual narration unfolds in sync with the narrative.

- Use case: HackFwd, Explainify

Dialogue BasedNarrator Based: Lecture Video

Narrator Based: Illustration

Scalable testing

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Scalable

Benchmark: classmarker.com

Quizzes check whether a concept

has been fully understood.

True / FalseStudents have to identify a statement or equation as either true or false.

Cloze testStudents have to find the right word, number or sign to complete an equation or sentence.

Free Text ResponseStudents have to name one or several words or digits in response to a question.

Multiple ChoiceStudents have to select the right answer from a number of choices.

P2P-Learning and P2P Grading

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To provide qualitative feedback at scale, assessment has to rely on peer-evaluation.The grade is calculated by averaging the five assessments. An appeals process for outliers ensures relative fairness.

P2P - Grading

Collaborative and Social: crowd-sourced Q&A App

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Collaborative and Social

Users can vote on other users’ responses.

Students can ask and answer open

questions.

Benchmark: quora.com

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Kickstarting MOOC PRODUCTION with a Fellowship

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MOOC PRODUCTION FELLOWSHIP

www.moocfellowship.org

30. April: Professors can apply with short course concept and introduction video

01 - 23 May: Public Voting

22 June: Jury announces the winners

Oktober 2013 first courses begin on www.iversity.org

Jonas Liepmannj.liepmann@iversity.org

We are looking forward to hearing from you.

Dahlwitzer Straße 78D-15366 Neuenhagen bei Berlin+49 (30) 577 093 38www.iversity.org

Thank you for your attention!

ANNEX

IVERSITY ALL COURSES MY COURSES ACCOUNT

Sam WaterstoneTechnische Universität Berlin, BMW Group, Munich

Courses

4 Achievements

Introduction to Genome Science

www.s-waterstone.com @samw Facebook Pro!le

100 % Complete

Computer Science 101 59 % Complete

1First unit!nished

2525 units!nished

Q25 quizzescompleted

!50 Questions

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Gamification

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Basic information, including your university

and/or employer and links to further profiles on the

web.

List of all your courses, including a progress bar.

Gamification - Students are awarded points and badges for engagement (e.g. Q&A activity, progress etc.). This provides real-time “analytics” to students as well as instructors.

- Publishing achievements rewards students outside of the class context.

Samy Waterstone unlocked an achievement on iversity.

25 quizzes completed

http://www.iversity.org/students/192843#achievements

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Samy Waterstone unlocked an achievement on iversity.

25 quizzes completed

http://www.iversity.org/students/192843#achievements

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Gamification of learning: users can publish their

achievements.

Benchmark: mozilla badges

Adaptive Learning - How does it work?

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Short quizzes test whether the

student understood the concept.

Depending on the performance in the quiz the student is subsequently referred to a

different video: either the explanation of a new concept or an alternative explanation of

the concept previously misunderstood.

Benchmark: knewton.com

Adaptive Learning

- Adaptive Learning is an augmentation of interactive content, as the system provides different content depending on the student’s performance.

- This is the most evolved flavour of automatable learning.

Seamless Mobile Access

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Seamless Mobile Access

- Open Courses provide content in bite size chunks. This makes it suitable for mobile learning on iOS and Android.

- Start the lesson on your desktop, continue on your mobile device, and finish at your desktop. We strive for a seamless transition.

Detailed Look at Crowdsourcing

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Teaching through Research

Market Research

The Great Sunflower Project

• Use crowdsourcing for research projects to gather large data sets

• Students contribute data and learn about research methods in practice

• Using elements of research as a teaching method are not merely consumer, but co-creators of their educational experience

Crowd Intelligence

• Course creators can employ crowd intelligence challenges to find new solutions to unsolved problems

• Complex assignments (e.g. writing a non-existent Wikipedia article) can be solved by group collaboration

Benchmark: chaordix.com

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The Benefits for Universities: Brandbuilding & Recruiting

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‣ Imagine a stadium filled with students from around the world joining a course hosted by your university.

‣ Showcase your university’s excellence: leading professors using state of the art technology will garner a lot of media attention.

‣ Open Courses let students interact extensively with your university brand.

A bigger reach

Student recruiting

‣ Create a community on iversity and stay in touch with the members of your course

‣ Promote specific Master’s and Ph.D. programs and attract the best students from the Open Course.