MOOCs

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MOOCs
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What in the world is a MOOC?

• Lisa LaVigna,
• Executive Director of Outreach
• Excelsior College

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Agenda

• Introductions
• What is a MOOC?
• What is not a MOOC?
• Advantages
• Disadvantages
• Discussion Ways to use MOOCs
• QA (but please ask questions throughout)

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Open Educational Resources

• Lecture notes
• Videos of classroom lectures
• Lessons designed for online world
• Courses / MOOCs
• Discussion groups

Physics lecture
OpenStudy
Khan Academy
Open University
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Open Educational Resources
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edX

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Awarding Credit for MOOCs?
This was particularly true of edXs first course,
a virtual lab-based electrical engineering course
called Circuits Electronics 155,000 students
registered for the course when it opened, but
only 23,000 earned a single point on the first
problem set, and 9,300 passed the midterm.
8,200 students took the final. Just over 7,000
earned a passing grade and the option of
receiving an informal certificate from
edX.About 30 percent of the students surveyed
said they did not have a bachelors degree. (Six
percent said they had a doctorate, 28 percent a
masters degree, and 37 percent a bachelors
degree.)Read more http//www.insidehighered.com
/news/2012/09/12/edx-explores-demographics-most-pe
rsistent-mooc-studentsixzz2fH5ofLLPInside
Higher Ed
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Awarding Credit for MOOCs?

• Low Cost
• Reach underserved
• Increase completion rates
• Spread expertise
• Showcase best professors

• Quality?
• Identity Verification
• Scalability
• Who awards the degree?

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Issue Identity Verification

• Make sure the people claiming the knowledge are
• WHO they say they are
• DOING their own work

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Why are we fixating on credit?

• A fixation on completion rates limits our
  imagination of what might be possible with
  MOOCs,
• Andrew Ho, Associate Professor of Harvards
  Graduate School of Education

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Best Practices

• Preparing for Assessment
• Remedial support/College Readiness
• Reaching International Audiences
• CEU Professional Development
• Certificates
• Branding and grow student base
• Life Long Learning

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OER and assessment

• What you know is more important than how or
  where you learned it.
• Credit should be based on knowledge, not
  attendance

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Remediation

• Use MOOCs as part of a blended learning solution
  to integrate remediation
• Biology (University of Miami)
• Math (University of Wisconsin La Crosse)
• Excelsior College - imbedded in online courses

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Democratization
Women
Africa Third World
Low Cost Education to those in developing world
At 15, it seems unlikely Priya Prabhakar of India
would know much about college. But she has
already taken six college courses from some of
America's best universities, earning high marks
in everything from poetry to computer programming.
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Last spring, Martinez enrolled in a class on
electronic circuits offered by edX,. He thought
it was so good that he began traveling around El
Salvador to convince others to join the class
and he signed up 50 students
A U.S. graduate student, Tony Hyun Kim, used edX
last spring to teach high school students in Ulan
Bator, the capital of Mongolia. A dozen passed
the course.
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Professional Development, Certificates or CEUs
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Professional Development, Certificates or CEUs
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Value for an Academic Institution

• Establish Credibility
• Show off faculty establish reputation
• Reach untapped markets (international)
• Improve quality of online programs
• Grow interest in STEM fields

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Three Flavors

• Introduction to Computers
• Completely Free MOOC
• Moderately priced certified Hybrid Course
• Full Price Harvard Course

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Why take a MOOC?

• Advancing in a current job
• Curiosity.
• Nearly half of MOOC students report their reason
  for enrolling in a course as curiosity, just for
  fun while 43.9 report enrolling to gain skills
  to do my job better.

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Lifelong Learning

• For fun!
• Career Exploration
• To experiment see if you like something
• Brush up on skills
• Validate expertise

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Life Long Learning

• I am addicted to Coursera's courses. I am
  retired person (73 years old) and I have
  completed 5 courses in 5 months.
• 83 already have a post secondary degree (79
  have a bachelors or beyond)

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Questions
Thank you for attending!
Lisa LaVigna llavigna_at_excelsior.edu
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Check out some MOOCs

• Here are some links to to sign up for courses.
• http//www.educause.edu/library/massive-open-onlin
  e-course-mooc
• http//www.mooc-list.com/
• http//www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/education/edlife
  /massive-open-online-courses-are-multiplying-at-a-
  rapid-pace.html?pagewantedall_r0
• http//www.bdpa-detroit.org/portal/index.php?optio
  ncom_contentviewarticleid57moocs-top-10-site
  s-for-free-education-with-elite-universitiescatid
  29educationItemid20

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Check out some MOOCs

• Here are some links to my sources
• http//www.learndash.com/mooc-latest-trends-infogr
  aphic/
• http//www.elearnhub.org/mooc-infographic/
• http//www.wiredacademic.com/2013/03/infographic-m
  ooc-completion-rates/
• http//www.classesandcareers.com/education/2013/07
  /10/infographic-how-many-students-are-completing-f
  ree-online-courses/
• http//www.katyjordan.com/MOOCproject.html
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOOC
• http//vcharkarn.com/uploads/images/MOOC.png
• http//www.technewsworld.com/story/MOOCs-Tearing-D
  own-the-Ivory-Tower-78909.html
• http//moocsatwork.com/blending-mooc-on-public-spe
  aking-at-jlt-group/
• http//www.ecampusnews.com/research/mit-harvard-mo
  oc-266/
• http//www.insidehighered.com/booklets
• http//www.ecampusnews.com/online-learning/harvard
  -mooc-187/?
• http//www.educationnews.org/online-schools/moocs-
  could-prove-disruptive-to-latin-america-higher-ed/
  
• http//chronicle.com/article/5-Ways-That-edX-Could
  -Change/134672/?cidwc
• http//www.technologyreview.com/news/506336/online
  -courses-put-pressure-on-universities-in-poorer-na
  tions/
• http//www.usnews.com/education/online-education/a
  rticles/2013/06/25/5-reasons-international-student
  s-should-consider-moocs
• http//knowledgeempowered.com/who-take-moocs/