1. MOOCs: More Questions Than Answers ASERL April 23, 2013 Catherine Murray-Rust

2. 2 Combination of information about MOOCs at Duke from Deborah Jakubs and Lynne O’Brien, information about MOOCs at Georgia Tech, and comments/questions about Library resources to support MOOCs Academic credit and degree approvals Changes in classroom education This presentation

3. 3 Some of the MOOC Companies/Partnerships Coursera—partners with 62 global universities, does not plan to offer degrees, revenue is generated from licensing courses and job placements, $26 million Udacity—no traditional university partnerships yet, partners with San Jose State to pilot for-credit online courses, focus on computer science and business, revenue generated from job placements, $21+million edX—Harvard and MIT are founding partners, plus ten university partners including the University of Texas system, revenue source unknown, $60+ million, including $5 million from UT and Berkeley

4. 4 Duke University

5. 5 MOOCs at Duke 11 courses developed and taught in 2012-13 (2 re-launched so far) 13 Duke faculty (and 1 UNC) from 13 departments and 5 schools 623K (non-unique) registrations across all Duke courses Significant positive feedback Rapidly changing technology and educational models

6. 6 Center for Instructional Technology consultants & tech support Librarians Scholarly Communications intern Assessment specialist Liaison to OIT, Provost’s Office, other groups Library:

7. 7 Looking ahead Experimenting with for-credit courses that have some of the same library challenges as MOOCs Additional 15 – 20 MOOCs next year Shifting to more experimental models Promoting open access publishing and use of open access materials No boundaries between course, textbooks, library resources, learning activities

8. 8 Georgia Tech

9. 9 Georgia Tech’s MOOC Experience Udacity –Three courses under development Coursera –registration underway for eight courses, enrollment to date is over 300,000 –Three Gates funded general education courses are ready to be released, English Composition, Physics 101, and Introductory Psychology –10-15 more courses under development –Non-exclusive agreement

10. 10 Georgia Tech Partners Center for the 21 st Century University Distance Learning and Professional Education Council on Educational Technology Provost’s Office Office of Information Technology Center for Teaching and Learning Library (to a limited degree so far) Issues of sustainability, organization, scale, and funding

11. 11 Access to Library Resources Concerns about students not having access to the best sources and new forms of scholarly communication because of pay walls, corporate agreements, and export controls Growing awareness of rights issues in MOOC community Discussions about licensing directly from publishers Reliance on open access sources may encourage faculty to be more aware of retaining their rights and depositing publications in an open repository Lawsuit potential

12. 12 American Council on Education –Five courses approved for credit State university systems –California proposal –Less expensive college degrees –State funding being used for out of state/international students –Disaggregating degrees ? Regional accrediting bodies are beginning to weigh in –SACS (if it includes academic credit, we are involved) –NC—may have to reapprove degrees Course Credit and Degree Approval

13. 13 Two Cheers for Web U! (A.J. Jacobs) Professors B+ Convenience A Teacher-to-student interaction D Student-to-student interaction B- Assignments B- Overall experience B –New York Times, Sunday April 20, 2013

14. 14 Changing Classroom Education? Just as librarians need to re-imagine what a library is without books, faculty need to redefine how they use face-to-face classroom time Seven mini-hub experiments Flipped classrooms Problem-based learning Embedded librarians