MOOCs in a modern University:Is this the end of the campus?

Professor Don NutbeamVice-Chancellor, University of Southampton

End of the campus...?

Clicks not bricks?

The Hype: This is the 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

Opportunities real (and hoped for) off campus

Enhance reputation – focus on your best

Marketing, especially for international students – try before you buy

New markets - Pull through new paying students from MOOC learners

Enhance CPD

Public Service

After a while, you will stand out if you don’t have MOOCs

Southampton’s first two MOOCs – Web Science and Oceanography

Massive new options for campus-based students• MOOCs and the technologies they foster will

advance innovations in teaching and learning, and expand markets for education

• MOOCS add to options for learning on campus, extending access to content

• 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

The end of the lecture?

The end of the lecture?

• Several universities now using the flipped classroom

• 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

More choice & flexibility on campus

MOOCs on campus – it’s all in the wrapping

• Campus students use MOOC material with an intelligent “wrapper” designed by the University –flipped classroom, quizzes, homework, further self-study, assessment and feedback

• With high quality MOOCs available for free, the quality of the wrapper determines the quality of the course.

• MOOCs become the new textbooks

Whose degree?

• Vanderbilt University already currently teaches campus students using Harvard MOOCs, plus a wrapper.

• Some universities are looking at accepting passes in MOOCs as credit for degrees.

• How can universities that are notoriously unable to develop even joint degree programmes offer options to take modules unavailable in the host institution?

• Is it all about the student, or all about the institution?

Making it all work

Making it all work

• Solve the issues: regulation, quality, ownership • Campus designed for MOOCs and blended

learning• Need high quality “wrapper” as well as high

quality course • Use MOOC technology and thinking for all

teaching – classroom, online CPD and MOOCs• Ride the wave and focus on strengths

End of the campus...?

Clicks AND Bricks