moocs - alternative education
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Some basic information MOOC, a new concept in learning. This was presented on 26th of June at Brasov Tech Meetup at Kronwell Hotel. It also contains some interesting references from people involved in creating MOOCs or from some MOOC providers like Udacity, Coursera.TRANSCRIPT
MOOCsalternative education
Iulian ȘerbănoiuJune 2014 - Brașov Tech Meetup
About me
Iulian Șerbănoiu - Software developer
undergraver
on
MOOC is ...
MassiveOnlineOpenCourse
some MOOC providers
it started in 2012 *
More at: http://edutechnica.com/moocmap/#* 2012- Year of the MOOC[1]
and keeps growing
and keeps growing
and keeps growing
MOOC structure
● Lectures (usually video)● Homeworks● Discussions (forums)● Announcement board
● Wiki (collaborative platform)● Quizzes● Virtual Office Hours● External resources (eg GitHub,
Youtube)● Surveys● Statement of accomplishment● Certifications (not always)
Typical Extra
MOOC structure
Benefits for “students”
● Easy access *
● Your own pace
● In touch with the big world
● Modern way of teaching
● Diversity and various approaches
● Time zones become irrelevant
* even though payment will be needed sometimes
Disadvantages
● Less interactiono virtual office hours/forums may help
● High “dropout” rateo no fear of getting expelledo periodic announcements may help
● Not yet on par with university courseso most people still think with pen & papero new teaching methods needed
● Prerequisites not always defined● Not suitable for all type of courses
Challenges for providers
● Identity verificationo coursera [7]o edX [8]o Udacity [10]
● Making it profitable (*)● Converting MOOCs into college credits,
toward earning degree [11]● Intellectual Property
* Even with donations (like edX and Khan Academy)
Benefits for universities
Lectures used even before MOOCs for publicity:
● MIT (with OCW)● Stanford● Berkeley ● Caltech● ...
New/unique possibilities
Leveraging the power of Internet
First trans institutional course [5]
New/unique possibilities
Leveraging the power of Internet
Automate the automatable
forced to automate because of
“Massive”
● assignment auto-verification
● peer review of homeworks
after deadlineSee [6] for the full list
Course preparation and handling
● A lot of effort for preparing high quality
videos [3]
● Huge effort in managing the MOOC [3]
o support for issues is time consuming
● Many limitations of the MOOC platform[3]
Course experience
● A lot of time required (maybe even 6-10h / week for one course)o watching videos & processing informationo working on assignments
● Platform limitationso automated test platforms don’t always
work well● Your effort may be rewarded
Course experience
● A lot of time required (maybe even 6-10h / week for one course)o watching videos & processing informationo working on assignments
● Platform limitationso automated test platforms don’t always
work well● Your effort may be rewarded
Future?
MOOCs?
Education as a Service (EaaS)? [4]
Only few universities? [13]
“In 50 years [...] there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one of them. [Sebastian] Thrun just has to plot the right course.”
References[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/education/edlife/massive-open-online-courses-are-multiplying-at-a-rapid-pace.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1& [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSxqpaCCPvY&t=50m45s [3] http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/~schmidt/PDF/POSA-MOOC.pdf [4] http://venturebeat.com/2014/05/11/education-as-a-service-5-ways-higher-ed-must-adapt-to-a-changing-market/ [5] http://blog.coursera.org/post/74257050344/a-trans-institution-specialization-on-mobile-cloud [6] http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/~schmidt/posa-mooc-countries.txt [7] https://www.coursera.org/signature/guidebook/certificate [8] https://www.edx.org/verified-certificate [9] http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/10/2/edx-id-verified-certificates/ [10] https://www.udacity.com/faq#section-0-5 [11] http://www.mooc2degree.com/ [12] http://blog.udacity.com/2014/06/announcing-nanodegrees-new-type-of.html [13] http://www.wired.com/2012/03/ff_aiclass/all/1
Resourceshttp://openclipart.org/detail/19110/virtual-school-cloud-by-jjfbbennetthttp://search.creativecommons.org/http://pambuccian.com/2014/06/01/why-i-designed-the-online-live-learning-and-livetutoring/ http://openclipart.org/detail/172105/user-identity-by-lpr577-172105 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use http://openclipart.org/detail/159643/thank-you-pinned-by-juliobahar http://openclipart.org/detail/177461/mike-the-mic-question-by-bibbleycheese-177461
Alternatives:http://www.wikipedia.org/ http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Pagehttp://www.wikiversity.org/http://ocw.mit.eduhttp://ocw.cs.pub.ro/ http://www.youtube.com/ (university video recordings)