The document discusses MOOCs and assessment challenges. It describes how MOOCs have disrupted traditional university education models by unbundling courses. However, assessing and granting credit for MOOC learning remains difficult. The document also outlines a five step process for obtaining low-cost, high quality bachelor's degrees through credit-by-examination and the use of open educational resources and online capstone courses.

1. MOOCs and Assessment
MOOC mania:
challenges to
assessment and credit
(and course design)
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Postgraduate
And
Graduate
Education
1994

13. Unbundling university education
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14. Acknowledgement:
Judith Murray, at the time Vice President, Open Learning
Thomson Rivers University, Canada

15. Commonwealth of Learning http://www.col.org/resources/publications/Pages/detail.aspx?PID=458

17. What is
Credit-by-Examination?
“What you know is more important than how
or where you learned it.”
 Credit-by-examination (aka credit by assessment)
allows students to prove their knowledge, regardless of
how that knowledge was gained, by taking an exam.
 Exams designed for credit test content equivalent to
common college-level courses and undergo rigorous
quality control.

18.  Developed and maintained by Excelsior
College since the 1970s.
 Administered at 4,000 Pearson Testing
Centers worldwide.
 Exam fees = $95 - $415, depending on
length and format (no separate seat fees).
Excelsior College Examinations
(ECEs) & UExcel Exams

19. Five Steps to Low Cost, High Quality
Bachelors Degrees

20. How does this work?
 Select from 4 assessment-based degrees
 Associate – Business
 Associate – Liberal Arts
 Bachelor – Business
 Bachelor – Liberal Arts
 Match curriculum against prior work (transfer
credit, previous credit-bearing exams, credit
for military/corporate training)

21. How does this work?
 Match work that needs to be completed
to credit-by-examination options
 Select from list of faculty vetted, free
materials to prep for the selected
assessment
 Access tutors and online library as
needed to help prepare for assessment

22. How does this work?
 Check level of mastery with practice
exam
 When ready, take exam of record
 To complete degree, take online
capstone course
 Learning credits do not have to be
tied to “seat time”

23. Commonwealth of Learning http://www.col.org/resources/publications/Pages/detail.aspx?PID=458

24. Commonwealth of Learning http://www.col.org/resources/publications/Pages/detail.aspx?PID=458

25. More questions than answers at this stage…
• It’s not only about developing CSU
MOOCs and OERs
• It’s more about reuse of other universities’
MOOCs and OERs within CSU courses
• And mostly about assessing & crediting
other universities’ MOOCs and OERs as
components of the CSU degree – how far
should we go?
Degree

26. UOW VC - INTEGRATION OF MOOCs
INTO A UNIVERSITY’S ACTIVITIES
- Within existing courses
- As a learning resource
- Accessible to individuals
- As a revision tool or expansion activity
- Additional courses
- Part of an integrated menu of options, with
assessment run by university

27. Why should CSU push further with OER?
• Lowering the cost of university education
for some learners
• Thereby attracting students that we are
not currently reaching
• Attracting international students
• Internationalisation of learning interaction

28. Stats from a recent Australian MOOC

29. Why should CSU push further with OER?
• Lowering the cost of university education for
some learners
• Thereby attracting students that we are not
currently reaching
• Attracting international students
• Internationalisation of learning interaction
• Internationalisation of course content
• Cost efficiencies in course development?

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