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MOOCs Beyond the Hype:

The Open Learning Journey at the

University of Pennsylvania

Educause 2014

 Amy Bennett, Director of Course Operations

Lauren Owens, Associate Director

Deirdre Woods, Executive Director

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Why are We Doing This?

• Create and disseminateknowledge

• Expand Penn’s global reach

• Drive teaching innovation oncampus

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 Penn’s MOOC Initiative

SUMMER 2012 FALL 2014

38 courses100% of Penn’s schools

2.7 million enrollments

195 countries reached

5 courses25% of Penn schools

200,000 enrollments

85 countries reached

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Breadth and Depth of Courses

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 Implications for IT Professionals

IT needs to be involved in activitiesclose to the institution’s mission

MOOCs are a template for other

new ventures

IT has technical expertise, project

management skills and previousrelationships with constituents

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Building Community On Campus

• How to evangelize a new initiative: – Make friends across campus

 – Host events

 – Promote, promote, promote

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Building Community Beyond Campus

Tell stories.

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Sprout Social Snapshot

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Making the Stories: Behind the Scenes

• Build a replicable process while

letting “magic” happen

• Prepare for unexpected scenariosby creating support mechanisms

• Let the journey unfold in multipledirections

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KICKOFF MEETING

STUDENT SIGN-UP

GO-LIVE PREPARATION

CLASS BEGINS

CLASS ENDS

WRAP-UP ACTIVITES

6 – 8

MONTHS

2 – 3

MONTHS

4 – 6

WEEKS

6 – 10

WEEKS

2 – 4

WEEKS

DESIGN, BUILD COURSE

The JourneyBuilding Infrastructure: GUIDED PROCESS

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The JourneyBuilding Infrastructure: SUPPORT

2014

2013

2012

SUPPORT:Leanest

 Ad-Hoc

UserDocumentation

SUPPORT:Leaner

ImplementationProcess

Course TeamTraining

Website andWiki

1 full-timeStudent help

SUPPORT:

Lean

Toolkit andTemplates

SupportProcess

(EscalationChain)

QualityChecks

Per-course

Support

BudgetManagement

2 full-timeStudent help

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MOOCs

DIGITAL

LEARNING

TOOLS(Blended

Learning)

MOOCs

DIGITALLEARNING

TOOLS

EXPERIMENTAL

PILOTS

MOOCs

DIGITAL

LEARNING

TOOLS

NEW MARKET

EXPLORATION:

Geographical

 Advanced Subjects

Content SharingHigher Stakes

2012

2014

MOOCs

2013

BEYOND

Continuing the JourneyExpanding our Scope

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Launching New Initiatives

• Perfection is the enemyof good

• Materials will have ashort shelf life

• Administrativeinfrastructure

• The team will need toperform many roles andbe comfortable withuncertainty

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Final Thoughts

• Developing strongrelationships acrosscampus is part of thework

• Change is alwaysmessy

• Have we reachedthe tipping point to

truly transform theclassroom?

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