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Explores the emerging - and diverging - models of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) offerings, and how Connectivist MOOCs and Xmodel MOOCs such as EdX, MITx, Udacity et al reflect very different visions of the changing game of higher education.
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Beyond the Walls of the Academy:
Massive Open Online Courses & the New Game of Higher Education
Bonnie Stewart, UPEI
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
= Not your average online courses
MOOCs = The Great Disruption?
The New Game of Higher Education
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The linear, structured world of knowledge scarcity
The complex networked world of knowledge abundance
Cynefin Framework
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Three Facets of 'Open'
Access
Resources
Knowledge Creationhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/smichael/4563914649/
Narrative Inquiry
What does it mean to be in a MOOC?
Emergent ThemesMOOCs embody digital practices
Harness knowledge abundance
Are participatory
Are networked
Are distributed
Share the processes of
knowledge work, not just the products
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Emergent Themes
MOOCs reflect the broader culture: when change is continual & expected, people engage in learning opportunities in order to increase personal capital and remain marketable
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Knowledge in MOOCs = Negotiated, Public,
Indeterminate
“Today, whatever can be easily duplicated cannot serve as the foundation for economic value.
Instead of producing entities with known and approved knowledge, the digital economic model harnesses the capacity of its citizens to connect, innovate, and reconfigure the known into new knowledge.”
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Fast Forward: 2011-2012
#change11
“The Mother of All MOOCS”
36 weeks, 36 facilitators
...Along come the Really Massive MOOCS
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- The X Model -
Stanford AI – Sept 2011
MITx – Dec 2011
Udacity – Jan 2012
Coursera – April 2012
EdX – May 2012...?
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Two Roads Diverged in a Yellow Wood...
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Open Access
Open Resource
Online
Global interest & registration
Post-registration filtering
Connectivist MOOCs & X MOOCS
- Commonalities -
Connectivist MOOCs & X MOOCS - Differences -
Who are the registrants?How do they connect with/learn from each
other?How do they connect with/learn from
facilitators? What counts as learning?
What is the business model?Where is the disruption?
The X Model: Triumph of the Traditional?
In a global educational economy, network power laws favour wealth & status
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- EdX Press ReleaseMay 2, 2012
X MOOCs' Business Model...= Data?
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Measuring known/knowable will not help us understand
complexity, networks, or knowledge abundance
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What Will Be Our Move?
Keeping Complexity in the Game:
the FHE12 Open Online Course
Be part of the conversation.http://edfuture.net/
THANK YOU!
@bonstewart
Created with the support of the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council
