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CENTRE FOR INNOVATION IN TECHNOLOGIES & EDUCATION
The Changing Face of MOOCs: New Platforms, New Paradigms In Learning
October 2013
Hugh Davis @HughDavis
Professor of Learning Technologies APVC and Director of Education Director of CITE and PDU
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Massive - some have 10,000s registered.
Open = free
anyone can register
Online although many have a parallel blended incarnation
Course - that runs at a given time with a given cohort
(but not necessarily accredited for anything)
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What is a MOOC?
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Context
Reason’s for making MOOCs
How MOOCs change accredited learning
The FutureLearn Platform
MOOCS vs “traditional” Online Learning
This Talk
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Not going
to talk much
about
Pedagogy (see ALT-MEMBERS
JISCMAIL discussion )
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Fees going up faster than value of degree
Increased demand for flexibility of study (particularly CPD)
Need for universities to globalize or specialize
Challenge from alternative educational providers (particularly
for MSc’s/CPD) becoming real
All these things imply a greater engagement with on-line
HE Context - Changing Business model for higher education
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“The Avalanche Report”
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Barber, M. Donnelly, K & Rizvi, S. (March 2013).
An Avalanche is Coming; Higher Education and the Revolution Ahead.
Institute for Public Policy Research.
The
Napster
moment
End of the campus...?
Clicks not bricks?
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Lots of experience in the small scale TEL and on-line
Need to expand global operation – but lacking large scale experience and
investment in sufficient TEL support staff
Southampton Context
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Then Along Comes the FutureLearn MOOC platform
8 And many things beginning with “British…
“Traditional” reasons
Universities do MOOCs
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Southampton is offering
Web Science and Oceanography
based MOOCs as its first offerings..
Enhancing our Reputation and Brand
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New Markets (1) =“Pull through”
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Informal
Learning
YouTube,
iTunesU
Non Formal
Learning
MOOCs
OERs
Formal
Learning
Modules
Formal
Learning
Whole
Programmes
Pulling Students through from the Informal to the Formal
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New markets (2) - Global Reach
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Web Science MOOC Registrations
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When employers accept on-line
certification then things will really
change
There will be many other options
than “boarding school degrees”
New markets (3) – flexible learning
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HE for non-traditional students and for
CPD
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Provide a public service
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http://iberry.com/cms/OER.htm
But there’s much more..
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MOOCs in campus based learning
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External non-paying MOOCers
MOOC
Paying Students
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Fully accredited programmes offered as MOOCs
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Articulated Degrees
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F2F
Module
MOOC
at
Stanford
OU
Module
MOOC
at Soton
Capstone
Project
Degree Programme
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The flipped MOOC / flipped classroom
End of the lecture?
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From www.sophia.org
The Futurelearn Platform
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PRODUCT VISION
Designed for mobile, tablets and desktop
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MOOCs vs
On-line learning
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Degree Courses-including online
• Pedagogic Plan
• Learning Resources
• Teacher/tutor
• Formative Assessment/Feedback
• Personal Guidance
• Support
• Examination
• Accreditation
MOOCs
YES
YES ++
x
Only if it does not cost so (objective, peer,
self evaluation)
x
x
?? Maybe – or certificates of completion
Not yet but watch this space
(The QAA certainly are!)
Comparing MOOCs with Degree Courses
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Demographics of Edinburgh’s MOOCs
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(MOOCs @ Edinburgh 2013 - Report #1)
End of the campus...?
Clicks AND
Bricks
I don’t think so!
Challenge is to optimise the
campus experience by
embracing the digital
movement, and freeing up the
timetable to allow for higher
quality contact time
MOOCs = more choice & flexibility
And meanwhile we are
developing our capacity to
develop high quality on-line
courses
Thank you
Any Questions?
Hugh Davis @HughDavis
users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/hcd