Moodlemoot AU July 2014, Cairns

1. Learning from the MOOCs: Building OUA's
Teaching & Learning Platform
Sachin Dua
Manager, Learning Applications
Open Universities Australia
Moodlemoot Australia
Cairns | July 2014

2. Timeline

3. Open2Study Facts & Figures
As of 25/06/2014

4. Open2Study Facts & Figures
As of 25/06/2014
• Student satisfaction rate above 96%
• Average completion rate of 1 in 4
• Over 63,000 students have successfully passed the course (certificates
of completion awarded)
• More than 85,000 forum posts and replies

5. What did we learn from Open2Study?
• Social learning helps online students stay connected and engaged
• An intuitive user experience helps students focus more on learning
• Students demand "quality" - even if it is free!
• On-demand (self paced) courses are more attractive to students
• Students are open to share their profile (~73% public profiles)
• Minor LMS improvements can save enormous amount of admin time

6. OUA Teaching & Learning Platform
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7. OUA Teaching & Learning Platform
• 18-weeks build time
• Agile/Scrum approach of two-week long iterations
• Integrated with existing open.edu.au My Study Centre
• A number of additional features from Open2Study

8. Platform Demo

9. Questions?
sachin.dua@open.edu.au
http://au.linkedin.com/in/duasachin/
@sachindua