MOOCs at MelbournePeter MelloweLearning DesignerUniversity of Melbourne

peter.mellow@unimelb.edu.auwww.petermellow.com

http://www.scoop.it/t/learning-with-moocs

MOOCs - The boost that online learning needed?

"Konrad Osterwalder, head of teaching development and technology at ETHZ, said there was nothing particularly innovative about current MOOCs, adding that ten-year-old well-made e-learning products were generally better quality.”

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss_news/Swiss_universities_try_to_catch_the_MOOC_wave.html?cid=34918170

MOOCs activity

Course TotalRegistration Enrolled Active during

course % Active during course

Active last week

% Active last week

Exercise Physiology 48,125 42,662 20,063 47.0% 13,818 32.4%

Wealth of Nations 29,509 20,680 13,238 64.0% 968 4.7%

Discrete Opt’zation 50,605 40,934 28,000 68.4% 4,877 11.9%

Epigenetic Control 38,992 32,964 19,712 59.8% 7,340 22.3%

Macro-economics 67,210 49,595 31,739 64.0% 1,169 2.4%

Animal Behaviour 35,646 33,107 24,844 75% 3,584 10.8%

Climate Change 39,242 35,518 22,691 63.8% 3,132 8.8%

255,460 63% average 13% average

Rene Kizelcec, Chris Piech and Emily Schneider “Deconstructing Disengagement: Analyzing Learner Subpopulations in Massive Open Online Courses,” http://moocnewsandreviews.com/summary-of-stanfords-mooc-user-study/#ixzz2abYV1exl

Challenges encountered and lessons learned

Slide credit: Deb Jones

“Enrol has becomethe new like button.”

Maria H. Anderson,

Director of Learning & Research,

Instructure 

309,946 Lecture viewings257,783 Lectures downloaded277,981 In-video quizzes viewed919 Discussion Forums

Preparing the courses

Convergence of pedagogy, technology and production...... and copyright clearance!

Slide credit: Deb Jones

Preparing the academics

• Personality and character of the lecturer is key

• Engaging (copyright cleared!) content and delivery

Autonomous and independent learners

Building learning communities

Engaging learners

Slide credit: Deb Jones

•Motivators:

•General interest

•Extend current knowledge

•Professional development*

•Interest in MOOCs

•Supplement traditional class*

•Can’t afford formal education

•Might take formal college class

•Geographically isolated

•(*some of these are stronger predictors of success)

Preparing the learners

Slide credit: Deb Jones

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Researcher Meet

Google Hangouts

Open Educational Resources (OER)Quality control and context

Impact on publishing - eTextbooks

Copyleft/Creative Commons

Open source

Gamification

Learning Analytics

•Use data to improve the learning experience

•Early warning systems/red flags

•Provide a better level of pastoral care

•Improve assessments through analysis of existing results

•Potential benefits for retention and success

2013 - Only 13 percent of schools offer MOOCs; but 43 percent plan to offer MOOCs by 2016

90 percent of schools offer or plan to offer online courses in the next 3 years - 74 percent offer today

Enterasys (2013)

React, provide or ignore. What’s your plan?

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