Post on 11-May-2015
description
Effective MOOCs
Access
Educate 1 billion people
Research
Understand learning
Quality
Improve learning
Quality
Can we improve on the in-person experience?
Yes, we can!
● Most MIT students preferred pure online to residential (sample bias)
● 98.6% of on-line alumni found it as good as or better than residential (sample bias)
● SJSU: Randomized experiment– Completion rate: 59% → 91%
– Midterm scores: up 5.6 points, 9.6 points
How can we improve on the in-person experience?
● Centralization– Data and crowdsourcing
● Deeply adapt pedagogy to technology● Aim for better-than-residential● Research-based practices
● Centralization– Data and crowdsourcing
● Deeply adapt pedagogy to technology● Aim for better-than-residential● Research-based practices
Mastery learning
Students do not move on until they've mastered a concept
Process
● Surveyed all of the problems in 6.002 (regular)● Virtually all of the problems could be covered
with numeric, symbolic equation, and circuit inputs
● Added one additional type (custom) to take advantage of the platform
● No multiple choice, true/false, etc.
Self-paced learningSelf-paced learning
ICAP
Passive Active Constructive
● Generating information
● Socratic-style learning sequences
● Write an article
● Manipulating information
● Videos with interspersed problems
● Highlight a passage
● Receiving information
● Attending lecture
● Reading text
Chi's ICAP framework
Learning objectives
Introduce problem
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Students discover paradox
Students work through math
Set up next equation
Explain paradox. Guide students to resolution
“If you did this correctly, you ought have gotten...”
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1.6 million
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Mining data on real student points of confusion
Research, on-line, and residential as complementary
Using master/novice interactions
Free and open, not "open"
Past
● More resources per course● Deep integration of technology and pedagogy● Research-based practices
Present
● Big data
Future
● Distributed classroom: crowds, open content