moocs: "clicks not bricks" is this the end of the campus?
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MOOCS: "Clicks not bricks" Is this the end of the Campus? Professor Don Nutbeam, Vice-Chancellor, University of SouthamptonTRANSCRIPT
MOOCS: “Clicks not bricks”
Is this the end of the Campus?
Professor Don NutbeamVice-Chancellor, University of Southampton
End of the campus...?
Clicks not bricks?
End of the campus – the avalanche is coming
• Education’s “Napster moment”• Once University content is available for free (or
nearly), who will ever pay £9000+ for a university education?
• Once University content can be delivered when and where people want it, who will turn up at lectures ever again?
• The conclusion is obvious - MOOC or die (and do it quickly)
• Neither quality nor reputation can stop the avalanche
End of the campus – I don’t think so
• Smart universities will embrace MOOCs - using them and the technologies they foster to advance innovations in teaching and learning, and expand markets for education
• MOOCS add to options for learning on campus, extending access to content for large numbers of learners, and opportunities for interaction with these other learners
• Challenge is to optimise the campus experience by embracing the digital movement, and freeing up the timetable to allow for higher quality contact time
• More like acceleration of an existing process of evolution than seismic revolution
End of the campus? – possibly the end of the lecture
• MOOCs (and the technologies they foster) can liberate students and academics from the traditional lecture
• The added value of a campus education will come increasingly from higher quality, interactive teaching and learning, and through the development of highly prized transferable skills
• More time for hands-on laboratory experience, small group work, and for group working with fellow students.
• Wider range of opportunities for creative assessment and feedback
MOOCs = more choice & flexibility
MOOCS = more choice and flexibility on campus
• Greater flexibility in access to content and whole modules – where and when students want it
• Greater opportunity to exercise choice in modules, to personalise education
• Accelerate moves to major/minor degrees• Federations of universities providing articulated
degrees – different modules provided by different universities
• Will lead to continued evolution in campus design, learning and social spaces
• Will require us to look again at the definition of a “contact hour”
End of the campus...?
Clicks AND Bricks