Massvely Open Online Courses Beyond the Hype
Charles SeveranceUniversity of MichiganSchool of Information
http://www.dr-chuck.com/@drchuck
I am not speaking for the University of Michigan, I am not speaking for Blackboard,
Inc., and I am not speaking for the IMS Global Learning Consortium.
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June 2010 - Goshen
July 2012 - Los Angeles
https://moodle.org/dev/
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Internet: TCI Show 08http://www.vimeo.com/4275919
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1995
1997
Sync-O-Maticwww.syncomat.com
2000 http://www-personal.umich.edu/~csev/csev/projects/cb2k/index.htm
2001
2004
The Future of my Sad Story (?)
• 2005 - Sakai completes and is installed at 20 universities :)
• 2006 - I take a few months, reinvent ClipBoard and integrate it into Sakai so people can *finally* truly use it
• 2007 - Hundreds of people try my idea and it turns out it was a bad idea - so I invent something else…
• Moral: I have been waiting 10 years, and changed three jobs to find a framework to deploy my idea so people could use it. Turns out the only way it was going to happen was to help build it myself.
2004
February 2007 - I quit Sakai in anger before I am fired in anger
October 2006 - Dallas
• In 2006 Richard N. Katz was retiring as the President of Educause
• He made a video with a series of bold predictions about the changes that we would see in the world of education over the next 14 years
09:502006
• Pick a Question - Discuss
• For the predictions that were accurate - why did get get it right?
• For the predictions that were wrong, why did he get them wrong?
09:502006-2012
Syncomatic -1996
Clipboard - 2002
Nuthin' But Net
Internet: TCI
Post-War (1940s)• Alumni of the US and UK codebreaking efforts
and other started building general purpose computers
• Manchester Baby
• Ferranti Mark I
• Harvard Mark I
• US Army ENIAC
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/SSEM_Manchester_museum.jpghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Classic_shot_of_the_ENIAC.jpgFour weeks
Layered Network Model
• A layered approach allows the problem of designing a network to be broken into more manageable sub problems
• Best-known model: TCP/IP—the “Internet Protocol Suite”
• There was also a 7 layer OSI: Open System Interconnection Model
Application LayerWeb, E-Mail, File Transfer
Transport Layer (TCP)Reliable Connections
Internetwork Layer (IP)Simple, Unreliable
Link Layer (Ethernet, WiFi)Physical Connections
Three weeks
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http://www.dr-chuck.com/sha1.phpTwo weeks
A Bit of Data...
July 2012
Feb 2013
Jun 2013
Oct 2013
https://www.coursera.org/course/insidetheinternet
Demographic Data (n=6495)
• English / Non-English Speaker
• 2908 - Yes 3487 - No
• First online class
• 2052 - Yes 4377 - No
Data from Feb 2013 session
Demographic Data (n=6495)
• Pursuing a Statement of Accompishment?
• 3239 - Yes 3210 - No - just learning
• Gender
• About 2/3 male
• University of Michigan Student
• 196 - Yes 6230 - No
Data from Feb 2013 session
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History Technology Security
Increasing difficulty...
• Week 1: What was the mistake made by the German Enigma operators that allowed Alan Turing to craft a strategy to break coded German messages?
• Week 5: When do wireless devices receive their serial numbers (i.e. MAC or Ethernet addresses)?
• Week 8: How does your computer typically know the public key of a certificate authority during secure communications?
My Thoughts on #IHTS
Be an Introductory Course
• We need low-stakes "freshman" courses in Coursera
• How to behave
• How to use the software
• How to write
• Figure out technical issues
• How to learn from others and help others learn....
Be an Open Learning Community
• Open Source works well when there is a "Benevolent Dictator"
• There needs to be real and enforced rules - but as few as possible
• Those in power must not hide behind their power and must share their power with those who show the right behavior
• Must make valued behaviors "infectious" / "amplified"
Teach the Teachers
• I don't beleive that all students in the world should consider me their teacher in this space
• I wrote a "book"- I want others to adopt it and re-mix it
• Related to making a "learning community"
Community Teaching Assistants
• Volunteer students from prior sessions
• Culture forms very rapidly
• Questions answered quickly
Mauro - Italy
Mazen - EgyptMegan - UK Susan - PA Karen - NC
Sue - CA
If we want we can also communicate in our own language in this thread.
http://youtu.be/GD9RSoVDKkw
New York NY, Los Angeles CA, Ann Arbor MI, Wilmington, NC,
Chicago IL, Washington, DC, Memphis, TN, Seattle WA, Seoul, Barcelona, London, Amsterdam,
Melbourne, Perth (soon)
• Back to the future
• Lets revisit the predictions that Richard M. Katz made for the 2013-2020 period...
09:502006
My Thoughts on MOOCs...
Is this New?
July 2012
Feb 2013
Jun 2013
Oct 2013
Is there a business model?
Coursera is approaching 4 Million Students - Just over a year
4 million users x 5% = 200,000 paying200,000 x $50 = $10,000,000 $2,500,000 to universities $500,000 to faculty
7,000 active students, 407 signature track407 * $40 = $16,280$16,280 x 5% = $814
What happenned to Open Educational Resources?
http://mfeldstein.com/emerging_student_patterns_in_moocs_graphical_view/
Is this a failure of MOOCs or
simply our first encounter with
real Personalized Learning or Self
Directed Learning?
Teaching or Measuring?
The End of Higher
Education?
http://cliparts101.com
IBM RS-6000
The End of the Mainframe
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/05/14/georgia-tech-and-udacity-roll-out-massive-new-low-cost-degree-program
What will change?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._F._Skinner
What about the students?
How can we improve
education?
http://code.edx.org/
We can get involved
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY-Ogkc7Mnw
It won't be easy..
A Few Predictions
• Online "continuation" Masters degrees have a limited lifetime
• For-profit undergraduate online programs will become very niche
• Residential schools must leverage being together - do more
• Remedial / preparation / just in time / continuing ed / professional development - wil be free an high quality
• Truly democratizing education will happen - but require re-commitment to open educatonal resources and remixable resources
Thank you.
https://www.coursera.org/course/insidetheinternet