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MOOCs and other future trends in Higher Education 4 th August 2012 Compiled by: Akhlesh Agarwal 1

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MOOCs and other future trends in

Higher Education

4th August 2012 Compiled by:

Akhlesh Agarwal

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What’s a MOOC

• Massive Open Online Course

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course

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Some early MOOCs

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• 160,000 enrollments, (More than all other CS professors in the world combined can teach AI in their life)• 23000 students pass

the course • 253 get perfect score

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkneoNrfadk

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Poster boys of open education

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https://www.coursera.org Started by some faculty from Stanford20+ people , 100+ courses

http://www.khanacademy.org/ With over 3,300 videos on everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice

https://www.edx.org/MIT + Harvard + BerkleyCurrently 7 courses

http://www.udacity.com/By Sebastial Thrun of Stanford AI course fameCurrently 11 coursesLearn for free, pay a little to get a certificate

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Free online college courses are proliferating

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A decade of openness

Open education resourcesOpen teachingOpen coursesOpen accreditation (very early stages)Open research (coming soon)

Courtesy George Siemens

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http://openbadges.org/en-US/

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A model for the future of university integration?

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Other open initiatives

http://www.gutenberg.org/

40,000 free eBooks

http://oreilly.com/openbook/ "open" copyright books

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Future of Hi Ed ??

Epic2020http://epic2020.org/

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Thank you

[email protected]

@akhlesha

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Thank you