LMSasaMOOC:Analternative to face current
MOOC’s challenges
LaunchCS50X(Harvard)
Course
180.000registrations
Endofthecourse
Lessthan1%completedthecourse
NewYorkTimes
2012“TheyearoftheMOOC”
The WashingtonPost
2013“AreMOOCreallyover?”
What hashappenedto the MOOC?
Currently,MOOCs arefacing some challenges…
35%
56%
4%5%
Didnotpastregistration
Lessthanhalfofthecourse
Morethanhalfofthecoursebutdidnotcompleteit
Earnedcertificate
Thisdata,takenfromthefirst6Harvardand11MITcourses(2012-2013),showsthat…
Only5%oftheregistereduserscompletedthecourseandreceivedcertificate.
Source: http://harvardmagazine.com/2015/07/is-small-beautiful
30millionUSD
edX16millionUSD
Coursera
Revenue andSustainability
“How these programs will sustain themselves is abig inquiry”
SOURCE:http://www.universitybusiness.com/article/spocs-may-provide-what-moocs-can%E2%80%99t
MOOCs
LowCompletion
Rates
Technicaldifficulties
Not bigdiversity
Budget
“The biggest success for onlinecourses andtheir greatestproblem arethe same”
SOURCE:http://www.bbc.com/news/business-24166247
SOURCE:http://www.edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2013/03/dark-side-mooc-do-challenges-outweigh-advantages
…but for every challenge,there is an alternative
HarvardX “Scalingdown,not up” SmallMOOC
SPOC(SmallPrivateOnlineCourse)
SOOC(SelectiveOpenOnlineCourses)
Low levels ofactive
participation
Low retentionrates
Variablestudent
backgrounds
“Smallis beautiful”
Distributingcomputingthroughcloud
services
Torrent
GITSETI@home
•Servers•Operationalcosts
SavingExpenses
“When you aredown,lookatthe sky”
“You cancreateyour own MOOCwith an LMS”
SPOC
LMS
Sharing Course
MOOC
LMS1 LMS2 LMS3 LMS4
SPOC SPOC SPOC SPOC
OCW
LMS
Sharing Clips
OCWs
LMS1 LMS2 LMS3 LMS4
OCW OCW OCW OCW
LMS
Efficiency
Hugenumbers Budget
Alternative
SMOOC
Concept
Computingdistributing
Methodology
MOOCCURRENTCHALLENGE
LMS
Onemorething…