MOOCs and future trends in Higher Ed
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MOOCs and other future trends in
Higher Education
4th August 2012 Compiled by:
Akhlesh Agarwal
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What’s a MOOC
• Massive Open Online Course
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course
Some early MOOCs
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• 160,000 enrollments, (More than all other CS professors in the world combined can teach AI in their life)• 23000 students pass
the course • 253 get perfect score
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkneoNrfadk
Poster boys of open education
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https://www.coursera.org Started by some faculty from Stanford20+ people , 100+ courses
http://www.khanacademy.org/ With over 3,300 videos on everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice
https://www.edx.org/MIT + Harvard + BerkleyCurrently 7 courses
http://www.udacity.com/By Sebastial Thrun of Stanford AI course fameCurrently 11 coursesLearn for free, pay a little to get a certificate
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Free online college courses are proliferating
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A decade of openness
Open education resourcesOpen teachingOpen coursesOpen accreditation (very early stages)Open research (coming soon)
Courtesy George Siemens
http://openbadges.org/en-US/
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A model for the future of university integration?
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Other open initiatives
http://www.gutenberg.org/
40,000 free eBooks
http://oreilly.com/openbook/ "open" copyright books
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Thank you