A new Revolution in e-ducation

Quality at Scale

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Open • Content

• Tools/Applications

– Finding; Getting; Using

– Knowledge

• Enabling Resources

– Legal

– Policy

– Community

Technology

• Networks; Devices; Software ;

Architecture; Processes

– Mobile Computing

– Cloud Computing

– Data Visualization & Analytics

– Simple Augmented Reality

– The Semantic Web

– Game-Based Learning

The Technology and Open Influence

Educational Innovation

and Transformation

Educational Technology Initiatives

Educational Value / Opportunity Potential Value / Impact

TEAL

(8.01, 8.02)

Create an active learning environment for

large lecture classes

Cost effective TEAL model for other

departments, Virtual TEAL

iLab

Expand range of experiments available for

students via remote access to labs

Online lab courses, significantly

more lab experiences, more

sophisticated labs (utilization of

high cost/rare equipment)

Mathlets

(18.03, 8.07, 16.90)

Interactive applets to promote deeper

understanding of mathematical concepts

(relevance to systems behavior;

transference)

Utilization by other departments,

create additional Mathlets,

implement concept with other

content areas

STAR

(7.012, 7.03)

Bring research software into the classroom

bridging research and education

STAR resources enriching online

courses

HyperStudio

(Metamedia, Cultura)

Tools to support language and culture

education

Flexible online collaborative

environments

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Educational Technology Initiatives

Educational Value / Opportunity Potential Value / Impact

NB

(2.003, 24.02)

Collaboratively annotate and review

documents and problem sets

Online discussion of problem sets,

exams, solutions; enable

interaction around OCW PDFs

Math CI Online community where instructors of

communication-intensive courses in

mathematics can share materials and

actively discuss teaching ideas. of

communication-intensive courses; Promote

pedagogical knowledge sharing;

Being used by the entire Math

Department; Possible use at other

MIT departments and beyond

OpenCourseWare Sharing MIT’s course materials with the

world

Self-learners, faculty can view

models of MIT courses

Experimental

Learning

Environments

Classrooms to support faculty experiments,

T/L Innovations, e,g., Project-Based

Learning

Continuous curriculum

improvement

Athena Clusters Contemporary learning spaces; student

community spaces

Support new collaboration forms

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The Open Explosion Education

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• MIT & Harvard invest

$30M each

• Free world education

• Open source platform

• We disrupt ourselves!!

So we launched a new

venture

Expand access to quality education

Advance research

Improve

on campus education

Non-profit venture founded by MIT & Harvard

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What’s unique?

• Scale

– Thousands – Tens of Thousands – Hundreds of Thousands

of simultaneous participants

– Communities

• Content (mostly video) and (formative) assessments

are tightly coupled

• Many innovative activities

– Assessments

– Tight Loop

– Automatically evaluated

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Video Vignettes

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Personalization effect - Mayer 2003

Interactive Simulations: Physics

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Instant Feedback

Virtual Game-Like Laboratory

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2MM Learners 196+

All Countries

4MM Course Enrollments

157 Courses

English, French,

Mandarin, Hindi

44+ Institutions

130+ Blended Classes

13,500+ Enrollments

The edX Impact

Internal adoption has been amazing

Semesters

Number

of

Courses

Number

of

Students

Courses Offered

2012F 3 600 8.01rq, CC.801, ES.801

2013S 7 994 5.11x, 6.041,6.s064, 8.011, 18.05, CC.801,

ES.802

2013F 13 1689 2.01, 2.03, 3.012, 3.091, 5.37, 6.341, 6.042,

8.21, 8.33, 8.021, 8.13, 18.03, CC.801

2014S 27 2318

2.01, 2.003, 5.03, 3.039, 3.086, 3.091, 5.11x,

7.013, 7.014, 7.06, 7.28, 8.011, 8.02, 8.13,

8.421, 6.00, 6.002, 6.003, 6.042, 6.s076,

6.874, 16.003, 16.90,, 18.03, 18.05, 18.06,

CC.802

3.091x Introduction to Solid State Chemistry

• “Treasure chest” of problems (412)

• 277 videos • 164-page e-text • No home-works, no exams • All proctored weekly quizzes

STAR: Software Tools for Academics & Research: http://web.mit.edu/star

Innovative tools to bring the practice of research to the process of learning

StarGenetics

StarBiochem

protein visualization

genetic cross simulator

StarOrf

gene finder

StarMolSim

materials

modeling

StarHydro

hydrology visualization

StarHPC

parallel programming

Expose students to the discovery aspect of research

and to the processes of doing research using interactive technology

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iLabs: “If you can’t come to the lab… the lab will come to you!”

U.S., Australia, China, India, Africa: iLabs

Consortium

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Shake table (Civil Eng., 2004) Dynamic signal analyzer (EECS, 2004)

Order of magnitude more lab experiences

More lab time to users/researchers

More sophisticated labs available

Communities of scholars created around iLabs

Sharing educational & research content

MITCET Modularity Experiments

John Essigmann

Bridge challenging concepts between

courses with similar concepts

Chemistry

Ken Kamrin & Pedro Reis

Modularize mechanics and materials into discrete learning

experiences

MechE

Wilcox, Darmofal, Radovitzky, Wang

Transform 16.20 & 16.90 to modular, active

learning experiences, and enable self-paced

completion of the courses

Aero-Astro

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Concept-Based Learning &

Modularity

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i2.002 Online Course

Crosslinks Video Concept Browser

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Caesar: Divide & Conquer

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programs chopped into chunks and

sent to many reviewers

Courtesy, Eric Klopfer,MIT

Social Reviewing

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reply &

discuss

upvote &

downvote

seeded by

automatic

style

checker

write new

comments

go beyond

the chunk,

if needed

Courtesy, Eric Klopfer,MIT

Reason #1: Mens et Manus

Industrial Chemistry Lab

Project Whirwind

2.007

Leveraged Freedom Chair

MIT’s exertions reestablish hands-on

Massively Flipped

Classrooms using

edX Platform

Rogers: Learning by Doing

ESG Concourse TEAL

6.01,

2.007

Reason #2: Instant Feedback

Feedback “I absolutely love the new way of doing problem sets. It lets me know that I am on the right track and helps me understand the problems better.”

“One of the most rewarding things about the first 8.02 problem set was solving a problem on paper, then immediately checking the answer online to receive a confirmation (small dopamine rush, confidence, motivation to continue, and reinforcement of concepts) or an error (immediate feedback, prompt to go look over solution and fix careless mistakes or more importantly, correct fundamental misunderstandings of the material).

Reasons 3~n

• More modularity

• “Choose your own

adventure” courses

• More research

apprenticeship

• More field experiences

• More internships/travel

☞ More Magic Time

Changing the Ecology and Economics of

Education • Abundance

– A • Actionable Access to Resources, Learning Experiences; Communities

• Alternate ways to learn: Models; Pathways

– B • Blended Learning; Boundary-less Education

– C • Customization and Continuous Improvement ;

– Learner feedback/Analytics /Open Design

• Continuous Education

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Online

textbook Videos Assessments

Courtesy Seaton, Pritchard Aug 2012

Learner activity and performance

3) Research in Learning on an

Unprecedented Scale via “Big Data”

All learners

Those

who

passed

The Open Difference

– Generative • 4Rs: Reuse; Remix, Revise, Redistribute

– Permitted by Technology Policy and Legally

– Boundary-less • Access, Development and Use not limited by domain/

community/technology/Policy – Bidirectional – Distributed locus of control; – Outcome and Process are shareable/transparent

– New Structural Relationships

• Access – Cost - Quality • Individual – Institution – Knowledge

– Agency of the Community (Crwd) – Learning Opportunities – Disaggregation of educational services

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The Future of MIT Education

• Taskforces

– MIT Education and Facilities for the Future

– Future Global Implications of edX and the

Opportunities It Creates

– New Financial Models for Education

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Visible Usable;

Situated

Anywhere; Virtual;

Blended

Receiving/Knowing

Affecting

Limited Term

Varying; Lifelong

Enrolled Student

Registered; Life-long

Member

Dropouts

100% completion

DE as 2nd Class Net-Enabled, Open as

Central Modality

University

Metaversity

The MC3 Service

Go to MAPS “Momentum and Impulse” Page

“Momentum” at Wikipedia

MIT 8.03 Vibrations &Waves, Lecture 23, Fall 2004

at 2824

MIT 8.01t, Fall 2004, Conservation of Momentum

(pdf)

The Physics Classroom, mentum and Impulse

YouTube, Julius Miller, Energy and Momentum Part

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YouTube, Julius Miller, Energy and Momentum Part

2

The Physics Zone, Lessons in Momentum

Other

Electricity & Magnetism

with Studio Physics

Studio format

Visualization/simulation

Desktop lab experiments

Student teams

iLabs at MIT

Shake table (Civil Eng.,

deployed early 2004)

Flagpole (Civil Eng.,

deployed 2000,)

Polymer crystallization

(Chem. E., deployed

2003)

Microelectronics device characterization

(EECS, deployed 1998) Heat exchanger (Chem. E., deployed 2001)

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Open • Content

• Tools/Applications

– Finding; Getting; Using

– Knowledge

• Enabling Resources

– Legal

– Policy

– Community

Technology

• Networks; Devices; Software ;

Architecture; Processes

– Mobile Computing

– Cloud Computing

– Data Visualization & Analytics

– Simple Augmented Reality

– The Semantic Web

– Game-Based Learning

– MOOCs?

The Technology and Open Influence

Educational Innovation

and Transformation

Goals to be served by research

• See how/place-based learning can leverage and benefit from learnings

• Understand how online experiences can be made better/optimal

e.g. for different disciplines.

• Understand how OL affects overall, production, distribution, process, and economics of education?

• Will enable us to develop and provide great on-line learning environments through

- Leveraging distributed communities / self-organized groups (instructor control Vs. student autonomy)

- Providing the right kinds of scaffolding to support optimal student learning.

• Will enable us to provide great overall (diverse) learning experiences.

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Technologies

• Nb – Collaborative PDF Annotation (David Karger)

• Caesar - Crowdsourced Code Review (Rob Miller)

• Crosslinks – With and Across Course Concept Links (Haynes Miller + Karen

Wilcox, OEIT)

• MC3 – MIT Core Concept Catalog (OEIT)

• Video Capture (AMPS, OEIT)

• Video Editing/Mixing (Pete Donaldson)

• Online Course Data Mining (Dave Pritchard)

• Games (Eric Klopfer)

• Xblock (edX)

Credentials and Course Sequences

ID Verified

Certificates of

Achievement

Audit

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60% pass

5% pass rate

Honor Code

Certificate

5% pass rate

Revenue approaches for sustainability of edX

• B2C

• Verified certificates

• B2B

• Author institution subscription fees

• While-label hosted platform with revenue share (e.g., World Economic Forum’s

Forum academy, MITx executive education OnlineX)

• B2N

• Course licensing to countries adopting OpenEdx (e.g., with edraak and

xuetangX)

• Philanthropy

• Individual donations

• Gates foundation

• Hewlett foundation

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