1. Massvely Open Online Courses
Beyond the Hype
Charles Severance
University of Michigan
School of Information
http://www.dr-chuck.com/
@drchuck
2. I am not speaking for the University of
Michigan, I am not speaking for Blackboard,
Inc., and I am not speaking for the IMS Global
Learning Consortium.
16. The Future of my Sad Story (?)
• 2005 - Sakai completes and is installed at 20
universities :)
• 2006 - I take a few months, reinvent ClipBoard and
integrate it into Sakai so people can *finally* truly use
it
• 2007 - Hundreds of people try my idea and it turns
out it was a bad idea - so I invent something else…
• Moral: I have been waiting 10 years, and changed
three jobs to find a framework to deploy my idea so
people could use it. Turns out the only way it was
going to happen was to help build it myself.
2004
17. February 2007 - I quit Sakai in anger before I am fired in anger
19. • In 2006 Richard N. Katz was retiring as
the President of Educause
• He made a video with a series of bold
predictions about the changes that we
would see in the world of education
over the next 14 years
09:502006
20.
21. • Pick a Question - Discuss
• For the predictions that were
accurate - why did get get it right?
• For the predictions that were wrong,
why did he get them wrong?
09:502006-2012
29. Post-War (1940s)
• Alumni of the US and UK codebreaking efforts
and other started building general purpose
computers
• Manchester Baby
• Ferranti Mark I
• Harvard Mark I
• US Army ENIAC
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/SSEM_Manchester_museum.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Classic_shot_of_the_ENIAC.jpgFour weeks
30. Layered Network
Model
• A layered approach allows the
problem of designing a network to
be broken into more manageable
sub problems
• Best-known model: TCP/IP—the
“Internet Protocol Suite”
• There was also a 7 layer OSI: Open
System Interconnection Model
Application Layer
Web, E-Mail, File Transfer
Transport Layer (TCP)
Reliable Connections
Internetwork Layer (IP)
Simple, Unreliable
Link Layer (Ethernet,WiFi)
Physical Connections
Three weeks
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34. Demographic Data (n=6495)
• English / Non-English Speaker
• 2908 - Yes 3487 - No
• First online class
• 2052 -Yes 4377 - No
Data from Feb 2013 session
35. Demographic Data (n=6495)
• Pursuing a Statement of Accompishment?
• 3239 - Yes 3210 - No - just learning
• Gender
• About 2/3 male
• University of Michigan Student
• 196 -Yes 6230 - No
Data from Feb 2013 session
40. Increasing difficulty...
• Week 1: What was the mistake made by the German Enigma
operators that allowed Alan Turing to craft a strategy to break coded
German messages?
• Week 5: When do wireless devices receive their serial numbers (i.e.
MAC or Ethernet addresses)?
• Week 8: How does your computer typically know the public key of a
certificate authority during secure communications?
42. Be an Introductory Course
• We need low-stakes "freshman" courses in Coursera
• How to behave
• How to use the software
• How to write
• Figure out technical issues
• How to learn from others and help others learn....
43. Be an Open Learning Community
• Open Source works well when there is a "Benevolent Dictator"
• There needs to be real and enforced rules - but as few as possible
• Those in power must not hide behind their power and must share
their power with those who show the right behavior
• Must make valued behaviors "infectious" / "amplified"
44. Teach the Teachers
• I don't beleive that all students in the world should consider me their
teacher in this space
• I wrote a "book"- I want others to adopt it and re-mix it
• Related to making a "learning community"
45. Community Teaching
Assistants
• Volunteer students from prior sessions
• Culture forms very rapidly
• Questions answered quickly
Mauro - Italy
Mazen - EgyptMegan - UK Susan - PA Karen - NC
Sue - CA
46.
47. If we want we can also communicate in our own language in this thread.
48. http://youtu.be/GD9RSoVDKkw
NewYork NY, Los Angeles CA,
Ann Arbor MI,Wilmington, NC,
Chicago IL,Washington, DC,
Memphis,TN, Seattle WA, Seoul,
Barcelona, London, Amsterdam,
Melbourne, Perth (soon)
49. • Back to the future
• Lets revisit the predictions that
Richard M. Katz made for the
2013-2020 period...
09:502006
52. July 2012
Feb 2013
Jun 2013
Oct 2013
Is there a
business model?
Coursera is approaching 4 Million
Students - Just over a year
4 million users x 5% = 200,000 paying
200,000 x $50 = $10,000,000
$2,500,000 to universities
$500,000 to faculty
7,000 active students, 407 signature track
407 * $40 = $16,280
$16,280 x 5% = $814
64. A Few Predictions
• Online "continuation" Masters degrees have a limited lifetime
• For-profit undergraduate online programs will become very niche
• Residential schools must leverage being together - do more
• Remedial / preparation / just in time / continuing ed / professional
development - wil be free an high quality
• Truly democratizing education will happen - but require re-
commitment to open educatonal resources and remixable resources