2013 06 13 (uc3m) emadrid pmitros edx effective moocs

1. Effective MOOCs

2. Access
Educate 1 billion people
Research
Understand learning
Quality
Improve learning

7. Quality

8. Can we improve on the in-
person experience?

9. Yes, we can!
● Most MIT students preferred pure online to
residential (sample bias)
● 98.6% of on-line alumni found it as good as or
better than residential (sample bias)
● SJSU: Randomized experiment
– Completion rate: 59% → 91%
– Midterm scores: up 5.6 points, 9.6 points

10. How can we improve on the
in-person experience?

11. ● Centralization
– Data and crowdsourcing
● Deeply adapt pedagogy to technology
● Aim for better-than-residential
● Research-based practices

13. ● Centralization
– Data and crowdsourcing
● Deeply adapt pedagogy to technology
● Aim for better-than-residential
● Research-based practices

14. Mastery learning
Students do not move on until they've
mastered a concept

16. Process
● Surveyed all of the problems in 6.002 (regular)
● Virtually all of the problems could be covered
with numeric, symbolic equation, and circuit
inputs
● Added one additional type (custom) to take
advantage of the platform
● No multiple choice, true/false, etc.

17. Self-paced learningSelf-paced learning

18. ICAP
Passive Active Constructive
● Generating
information
● Socratic-
style learning
sequences
● Write an
article
● Manipulating
information
● Videos with
interspersed
problems
● Highlight a
passage
● Receiving
information
● Attending
lecture
● Reading text
Chi's ICAP framework

19. Learning
objectives
Introduce
problem
5
Students
discover
paradox
Students
work
through
math
Set up
next
equation
Explain
paradox.
Guide
students
to
resolution
“If you did
this
correctly,
you ought
have
gotten...”
...

20. $500,000

21. 5000

22. 1.6 million

27. Problem

28. Problem
Problem

29. Problem
Problem
Problem ProblemProblem

30. Problem
Problem
Problem
Problem
Problem
Problem
Problem
Problem

31. Mining data on real student points of confusion
Research, on-line, and residential as complementary
Using master/novice interactions
Free and open, not "open"

32. Past
● More resources per course
● Deep integration of technology and pedagogy
● Research-based practices
Present
● Big data
Future
● Distributed classroom: crowds, open content