How can the MOOCs model be applied in Asia-Pacific?

Fukumi HIGASHIHIRA Keio University

📩fukumi@sfc.keio.ac.jp

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WHAT IS A MOOC?

M 　　O　 　 O　　 C　　ASSIVE NLINEPEN OURSE

100~100,000(include150~300)

Open RegistrationFree AccessFree of charge

Open Content Open Platform

On Campus?

Peer groupMeet-ups

DueBadges

Pay between $30-$100 (depending on the course)

Siemens (2014)

MOOC’S GOAL

• Extending the reach of the institution and access to education

• Building and maintaining brand of Universities

• Improving profitability by lowering costs or increasing revenues

• Improving educational results for both MOOC participants and on-campus students

• Innovation in teaching and learning

• Conducting research on teaching and learning, etc… Hollands and Tirthali (2014)3

• Free

• Video: 10 min - 15 min (Khan Academy)

• Interaction between S⇄S, S⇄T simultaneously

using Facebook, Twitter, Line, Google+

• For the Life-long learners

WHAT IS NEW?

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Completion average rate → 4 to 10% (rest is drop out)

“Gacco”’s Completion Rate → 18%

Coursera Udasity edX gacco

Completion Rate 7-10 ー 4-5 18

MOOC’S ISSUE

(Aug 2014)

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MOOC PLATFORMS IN USA AND JAPAN

“Coursera” “Udacity” “edX” “gacco”

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MOOC PLATFORMS IN USA AND JAPAN

Coursera Udasity edX gacco

Origin Stanford Stanford Harvard/ MIT NTT

Launched 2012.2 2012.2 2012.5 2014.4

Users 10.2 million 1.6 million 100,000+ 50,000+

Structure For-Profit For-Profit Non-Profit For-Profit

Course offered 870 50 345 14

LanguageEnglish, Spanish, French, Chinese, Arabic, Russian,

Portuguese,etc. (13)English

English,Chinese,French, Hindi,

SpanishJapanese-only

7(11. 2014)

Coursera Udasity edX gacco

O O O O

O O O O

X X X O

O O X X

O X X X

Edmaps (2014)＜Multi-Device＞

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MOOC PLATFORMS IN USA AND JAPAN

=

“GACCO” (JAPAN)

Flipped LearningOnline

LearningFace to face

Learning+=

⇧

Blended Learning

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• OUJ was founded in 1983 by the Open University Foundation, under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications

OPEN UNIVERSITY OF JAPAN (OUJ)

• OUJ has grown to become the largest distance education institution in Japan.

• To date, over 1,300,000 people have studied at OUJ, with over 78,000 of them graduating with a degree.

• Taking advantages of terrestrial digital broadcasting and satellite broadcasting, OUJ provides effective broadcast lectures using vivid visuals in high-definition and information content developed by experts in the field.

OPEN UNIVERSITY OF JAPAN (OUJ)

OPEN UNIVERSITY OF AUSTRALIA (OUA) • Curtin University

• Griffith University

• Macquarie University

• Monash University

• RMIT University

• Swinburne University of Technology

• University of South Australia

“OPEN 2 STUDY” (AUSTRALIA) ・Australia

・Massey University (New Zealand)

・South China University of Technology (China)

Open2Study is backed by Open Universities Australia (OUA), an Australian leader in accredited online education.

THE FUTURE OF MOOCS

Asia

Australia

USP

CourseraEdX

Open2Study

Pacific Island

JapanJMOOCs- Gacco, Schoo

ChinaedX, Coursera“icourses"

KoreaKMOOCs- Each University

MalaysiaTAYLOR'S UNIVERSITY

Thailand with ASEAN

THE FUTURE OF MOOCSxMOOC⇄cMOOC Global (Majority)

⇅

Focus on Scalability

Focus on Connectivism

Local (Minority)

→→→Blended(๑•ᴗ•๑) →→→Role-sharing (❀◕∇◕)

School

Gacco

x MOOC (original)

c MOOC ( x + interaction)

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←Lecture style

←Student-centered

MAJOR REFERENCES

• "MOOCs Expectations and Reality Full Report” Fiona M. Hollands, Ph.D. Devayani Tirthali, Ed.D., Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University

• “MOOCs Massive Online Courses”Michael Gaebel, EUA

• Edmaps http://edmaps.co/moocsnews/15