MOOCs - how to live with them and love them
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MOOCs - how to live with them and love them STEPHEN HAGGARD Auckland NZ, 6 May 2014, Innovation in Tertiary Education Summit Please tweet questions and comment during this talk @stephendh #ITES14
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Keynote address at Innovation in Tertiary Education Services 2014 conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 5th May 2014. Discusses how MOOCs are stimulating a climate of innovation and change in education online, shows case studies of innovative teaching formats in a range of Universities and Community Colleges. Argues that MOOCs are performing at plateau of stable expectations, and that their greatest impact is a set of invigorated conversations around cost, access, quality and delivery of education. Compares two interdisciplinary courses, one a blended/hybrid course at Harrisburg Community Colleges, and one offered later as a MOOC at UC Irvine, both using topic of Zombies as a vehicle. Concludes that MOOCs have unleashed an innovative set of approaches across HE (rather than being in them selves innovative). Schools focussed on classroom delivery have an opportunity to re-invent what they do. Elite institutions can use the MOOC as an intermediary format for delivering their content across multiple formats
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MOOCs - how to live with them and love them
STEPHEN HAGGARDAuckland NZ, 6 May 2014, Innovation in Tertiary Education Summit
Please tweet questions and comment during this talk @stephendh #ITES14
MOOCs do change HE delivery...
….but not in the ways we were expecting
WHAT’S INNOVATIVE ABOUT MOOCS ?
massiveopenonlinecourse
not significantly innovative
a new kind of conversation about cost, access, quality, delivery
significant innovation
hype cycle
Stanford Online - 2013 in reviewhttp://www.stanford.edu/dept/vpol/vpol-files/2013_Report/Stanford_Online_2013_In_Review.pdf
3 cost lessons from MOOCs
MOOC-type scalable pedagogies: 1. apparently reduce course price
(thanks, Marketing)
2. probably reduce course costs (Georgia Tech $7K Masters or SJSU EdX ?)
3. definitely help us talk about value
Value problemsare toxic
students’ priorities for university spending
Data: Equifax/CCSHigher Education Policy Inst
Cost becomes a defining feature
University of Pennsylvania / New Republic DailySample: 35,000 MOOC students
2 MOOC access lessons
Access is up for challenge
University of Pennsylvania / New Republic Daily. Sample: 35,000 MOOC students
1 MOOC quality lesson
Quality is relative & is perceived clearly throughout the system
Christian Guellerin, DirecteurL’Ecole de Design Nantes Atlantique
“ I have no chance of putting together a better MOOC than Stanford and Tim Brown has done on Design Thinking”
n MOOC delivery lessons
Online is the new normal • Traditional delivery reduces success in STEM• Univ Illinois Springfield 45% credit hours online
Florida is the future• Senior HS mandatory 25% fully online courses• FLVC catalog: “cross-institutional access to online teaching”
Delivery mode innovation is in(no thanks to MOOCs)
Which innovative maths MOOC ?
No-charge course materials and tools Mandatory peer review of all assignments Submit graphs online by google draw Instruction in youtube video Assessment by peer-reviewing comments
The Florida challenge
Minorities > 60% Pell Grant recipients >50%Vocational/technical qualifications >25%Lowest tuition fees in StateTop 10% of State for passing and employment
MOOCs do change HE delivery...
….but not in the ways we were expecting
What do you do ?
● Watch video: lectures and clips of “The Walking Dead”
or cast interviews
● Read stuff
● Discuss in structured forums
● 10-question quiz
● Open course forum
What happened ?
65,000 enrollments12,000 SURVEYS
90% new to MOOC41% new to online learning55% interested in other online multidisciplinary courses80% spent >1hr/week
http://www.instructure.com/downloads/twd-mooc-feedback.pdf
Harrisburg Area Community College75 students3 termsaccelerated degree programinterdisciplinary course: psychology, microbiology, philosophy, administration
Blended/hybrid pedagogyOnline news widget link to online lecturesitunes podcastschat, boards, panels, skypes, roleplay etc
Assessed - Blooms higher skills framework: essay, graded discussion, group task, exam, projectCompletion - 100%Open - 8 lectures on itunes
bifurcation
high-touch residential
low-touch class delivery
● job readiness ● updating ● credentialling
Daniel McFarlane, Stanford
Organizational Analysis MOOCThree incarnations
Thank you
(OK, I didn’t cover MOOCs’ completion rates business models accreditationquality problems& copyright)
@stephendh
