MOOCs Technology Tuesdays James Moore • Telephone: +1 (312) 362-5870 • Email: [email protected] • URL: condor.depaul.edu/jmoore/ What is a MOOC? Massive Open Online Course (Like MMORPG) 1 2 3
MOOCsTechnology Tuesdays
James Moore
• Telephone: +1 (312) 362-5870• Email: [email protected]• URL: condor.depaul.edu/jmoore/
What is a MOOC?
Massive Open Online Course
(Like MMORPG)
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Massive(ly) multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG)
www.worldofwarcraft.com
Massive
Internet history, technology, and security 2012Internet history, technology, and security 2012
Number of students signed up: 45,572
Number of students who took the Final: 5,401
Number of certificates: 4,595
Open
Open to anyone with a computer and access to the Internet
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And “Open” As In...
Open Content
Online
Course
Connectivist Broadcast
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Absent-Minded Professor
Pace
Regular Deadlines Self-Paced
Examples
• Power Searching With Googlewww.powersearchingwithgoogle.com
• Udacitywww.udacity.com
• Courserawww.coursera.org
• edXwww.edx.org
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Faculty Led
Bypassed LMS Vendors
Reasons?
• Free
• Open to all
• Very large number students
• Scalable assessment
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Business Models
• Selling student data
• Micropayments
• Selling books/merchandise
• Selling content to academia
• Charitable funding
• Work placement
Differences
• Credit
• Open vs “closed” resources
• Faculty interaction
• Expectations of the student
• Scalability
• Type of student
Best Practice
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Core Value
Certification(Assessing Learning)
Environment(a place in which learning
takes place)
How do we design these courses?
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Start At The End
Certification
Ability to...Knowledge of...Demonstration of...
Assessment
Testing
Experiment
Interaction
Make mistakes
Feedback
Instruction
Deliver material
Possible Outcomes
• Destabilize publishing
• Destabilize Higher Education
• Certificates / Badges / Credits
• Industrialization of education
• Change the role of adjuncts
• Preparatory study
• Destabilize LMS vendors
Déjà Vu All Over Again?
http://ocw.mit.edu
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Big Data
ALEKS
Assessment and LEarning in Knowledge Spaces
http://www.aleks.com
Future of Teaching?
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What Could DePaul Do?
Credit
Offer a MOOC
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UVP
Faculty
Mission
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Duration
5 Weeks 10 Weeks
8January
Platform
MOOCsTechnology Tuesdays
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James Moore
• Telephone: +1 (312) 362-5870• Email: [email protected]• URL: condor.depaul.edu/jmoore/
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