Rebecca Frost Davis, Director of Instructional and Emerging Technology, St. Edward’s University!

MOOCs, Boutique Subjects, and Marginal Approaches (#s399)!

Liberal Education in a Networked World!•  http://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com !–  Slides!–  Resources!

•  Twitter!– @frostdavis!– #mla14 #s399!

Massive!Open !Online!Course!

MOOC Curriculum?!•  Class Central, https://www.class-central.com/, a

MOOC aggregator!•  Lists courses from Coursera, Udacity, edX,

NovoED, & others !•  1325 courses categorized by subject!•  1745 total!–  1059 finished!–  129 in progress!–  557 future !!

Percentage by Subject!

16%  

15%  

14%  

13%  

10%  

10%  

7%  

7%  

5%  3%  

Humani0es  

Computer  Science  

Business  &  Management  

Science  

Health  &  Medicine  

Educa0on  &  Teaching  

Mathema0cs  &  Stats  

Social  Sciences  

Engineering  

Art  &  Design  

Boutique Majors & Marginal Approaches!

•  Boutique majors: Medieval studies, classics, the less studied foreign languages !–  12% of humanities!–  2% of total!

•  Marginal approaches: feminist, queer, race, and disability perspectives !–  6% of humanities!–  1% of total!

Massive Open Online Course!

Image  courtesy  of  Phil  Hill  

•  Industrial (xMOOC)!–  Faculty expert!–  Homogeneous

Network!–  One perfect lecture(r)!–  Knowledge transfer!

•  Networked (cMOOC)!–  Peer learning!–  Heterogeneous

Network!–  Knowledge is situated!–  Knowledge production!

Two Visions for MOOCs!

“Going  the  Distance:  Online  Educa0on  in  the  United  States”  (2011),  p.  7.            100%                                    MOOC                            Massive  Open  Online  Course  

Online Learning as Delivery Method!

Networks!

Mass  Industrializa0on  MOOC  

Mass  Customiza0on  Amazon  

Small  Liberal  Arts  Colleges  Humani0es  Projects  

Local    

The Long Tail!

Reading the Gesta Francorum!

FemTechNet!•  See paper 1 in #s369, "Feminist Dialogues on

Technology," Elizabeth Mathews Losh, Univ. of California, San Diego!

•  Distributed Online Collaborative Course (DOCC)!•  FAQ for FemTechNet!•  18 nodes!

More examples of Networked Courses!

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Slide  courtesy  of  Lisa  Spiro,  “Open  Educa0on  and  MOOCs”  

Networked Courses!•  Local classes in a Larger Network!–  Sunoikisis intercampus courses (ICCs) in advanced

Greek & Latin!–  History Harvest!

•  Aggregate Expertise!•  Share local resources!•  Share local perspective!

Sunoikisis  Network,  Fall  2006  

Sunoikisis!•  National consortium of Classics programs!•  http://www.sunoikisis.org !•  Summer Course Planning Seminars!•  Intercampus Team Taught Courses!–  Weekly live online sessions using desktop

videoconferencing!–  Remaining course meetings on individual campuses!

Hybrid Model!Barbara Means et al. Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies. U.S. Department of Education  Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development  Policy and Program Studies Service, September 2010. !http://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/!eval/tech/evidence-based-!practices/finalreport.pdf. !

Southwestern  University  Students  A]end  Greek  Class  

http://lookingforwhitman.org!•  Personal student blogs!•  Aggregation via tags and news feeds!

Looking for Whitman in . . .!•  New York City College of Technology (CUNY)!•  New York University!•  University of Mary Washington in

Fredericksburg, VA!•  Rutgers University-Camden !•  University of Novi Sad (Serbia)!•  Gold, Matthew. “Disrupting Institutional Barriers! Through Digital Humanities Pedagogy.” Diversity & ! Democracy 15, no. 2 (2012). !