Keynote address at Innovation in Tertiary Education Services 2014 conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 5th May 2014.
Discusses how MOOCs are stimulating a climate of innovation and change in education online, shows case studies of innovative teaching formats in a range of Universities and Community Colleges.
Argues that MOOCs are performing at plateau of stable expectations, and that their greatest impact is a set of invigorated conversations around cost, access, quality and delivery of education.
Compares two interdisciplinary courses, one a blended/hybrid course at Harrisburg Community Colleges, and one offered later as a MOOC at UC Irvine, both using topic of Zombies as a vehicle.
Concludes that MOOCs have unleashed an innovative set of approaches across HE (rather than being in them selves innovative). Schools focussed on classroom delivery have an opportunity to re-invent what they do. Elite institutions can use the MOOC as an intermediary format for delivering their content across multiple formats
Micro-Scholarship, What it is, How can it help me.pdf
MOOCs - how to live with them and love them
1. MOOCs - how to live with them
and love them
STEPHEN HAGGARD
Auckland NZ, 6 May 2014, Innovation in Tertiary Education Summit
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during this talk
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2. MOOCs do change HE delivery...
….but not in the ways we were expecting
3. WHAT’S INNOVATIVE ABOUT MOOCS ?
massive
open
online
course
not significantly
innovative
a new kind of
conversation about
cost, access,
quality, delivery
significant
innovation
11. Access is up for challenge
University of Pennsylvania / New Republic Daily. Sample: 35,000 MOOC students
12. 1 MOOC quality lesson
Quality is relative & is perceived clearly
throughout the system
Christian Guellerin, Directeur
L’Ecole de Design Nantes Atlantique
“ I have no chance of
putting together a better
MOOC than Stanford
and Tim Brown has done
on Design Thinking”
13. n MOOC delivery lessons
Online is the new normal
• Traditional delivery reduces success in STEM
• Univ Illinois Springfield 45% credit hours online
Florida is the future
• Senior HS mandatory 25% fully online courses
• FLVC catalog: “cross-institutional access to online teaching”
Delivery mode innovation is in
(no thanks to MOOCs)
14. Which innovative maths MOOC ?
No-charge course materials and tools
Mandatory peer review of all assignments
Submit graphs online by google draw
Instruction in youtube video
Assessment by peer-reviewing comments
15. The Florida challenge
Minorities > 60%
Pell Grant recipients >50%
Vocational/technical qualifications >25%
Lowest tuition fees in State
Top 10% of State for passing and employment
16. MOOCs do change HE delivery...
….but not in the ways we were expecting
17.
18. What do you do ?
● Watch video: lectures and clips of “The Walking Dead”
or cast interviews
● Read stuff
● Discuss in structured forums
● 10-question quiz
● Open course forum
19. What happened ?
65,000 enrollments
12,000 SURVEYS
90% new to MOOC
41% new to online learning
55% interested in other online
multidisciplinary courses
80% spent >1hr/week
25. Thank you
(OK, I didn’t cover MOOCs’
completion rates
business models
accreditation
quality problems
& copyright)
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Notes de l'éditeur
Delivery is the last of the conversations that is changing and opening up under the MOOC pressure.
HE has stayed in the closet on how they deliver their content, pretend it’s lawns and tutorials. MOOCs are making it okay to talk openly and positively about the use they make of online.
STEM delivery meta-analysis,
UIS is positively online and vaunts this advantage,
Florida – future (cost-focus) shocking for us Poms: - requiring SHS to push students out of schools and study at home for 25% of the content: and everyone’s happy. Creating a generation expecting the online mode. FLVC – sharing content x-insititution and shopping for best.
What this means is the modes of online delivery are entering a golden age of innovation
Irony that most MOOCs themselves are mostly dull pedagogy - instructivism
I’ve seen award entries this week for 50 innovative uses of D2L platform – dross, okay, but amazing ideas out there. And they are really concentrated in Florida – which is a place we think of as not the hotbed of educational innovation
So here’s one
Question
Broward College: new courses in Math, Psych, English using MOOC-derived techniques
Zombies.
Look at two courses on Zombies and see this contrast between what the innovations are that come from MOOCs, and contrast them with innovations that are distinctly NON MOOC
Mulitidisciplinary MOOC The Walkking Dead
Psychology physics, maths, public health, social science
AMC cable network
UC Irvine, Orange county, a big business too
now remember UC Online famously spent $4.3 mnmarketing online courses and recruited one single student. So the issue here - which the MOOC format is bouncing off - is can you get numbers signing up for UC experiences online at all.