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Fly Me to the MOOC,

so Call Me Maybe?

Carol Cutler-White, Dean and Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President

What a MOOC is and what a MOOC is notCarol Cutler-White, Dean and Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President

Are MOOCS the future?

• Mass adoption of distance learning to leverage expert resources.

• Individualized just in time learning approaches

• Transition to hybrid classes with less frequent campus meetings

Pew Internet and American Life Projecthttp://www.pewinternet.org/topics/Future--‐of--‐the--‐internet.aspx


http://studentforce.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/the-numbers-on-moocs-popularity-effectiveness-participation/

Lots of questions


Udacity Coursera

edX


http://www.udacity.com/

http://www.coursera.com/

http://www.edx.org/

Udacity

“Our mission is to bring accessible,

affordable, engaging, and highly effective

higher education to the world”

www.udacity.com



Why?

MOOC ContentThe Introductory Algebra Review MOOC will cover the first five math modules:

• DMA 010 – Operations with Integers

• DMA 020 – Fractions and Decimals

• DMA 030 – Proportions/Ratios Rates/Percentages

• DMA 040 – Expressions, Linear Equations, Linear Inequalities

• DMA 050 – Graphs and Equations of Lines



Wake Tech

High school student

Diagnostic test

Complete MOOC

DEM module

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Retest and enter college math or DEM

College math

MOOC as supplemen

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DEM MOOC Theory of Change


Carol Cutler-White, Dean and Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice

President

TEAMWORK

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Progress to date

Early lessons

Introductory Algebra Review

It’s a nice idea, but….



Monetizing


www.waketech.edu search MOOC@wakegrants

http://www.waketech.edu/

Developmental Education

Math Massive

Open Online Course

(DEM-MOOC)
