1. Leadership in Educational Entrepreneurship through Badges
2013 Enterprise IT Leadership Conference
Lessons for e-Learning from MOOC-based Education presented by Dennis Viehland for the eLearnz 2015 Conference 22 July 2015
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2. Leadership in Educational Entrepreneurship through Badges
2013 Enterprise IT Leadership Conference
About the Presenter
Dennis Viehland
Scholar of Emerging Technology
My interest in MOOCs is consistent with my lifelong interest in discovering emerging technologies and sharing that discovery with others who need to know.
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3. Leadership in Educational Entrepreneurship through Badges
2013 Enterprise IT Leadership Conference
Presentation Outline
What is a MOOC? What's different?
The MOOC evolution
Tracking MOOCs in the Gartner Hype Cycle
MOOCs in New Zealand
Lessons Learned
Open Forum
© Dennis Viehland, All Rights Reserved

4. What is a MOOC?
Massive: larger than traditional instructional systems and resources can manage
Open: the key defining word – open enrolment, uses open educational resources and open participation through social media
Online: an obvious characteristic – all course interaction occurs over the Internet
Course: a MOOC includes learning objectives, a start and end date, assignments, etc.

5. What’s Different about a MOOC?
Traditional course
Closed participation
50-minute lectures
Lecture (one-to-many)
Paper-based textbook
Required assignments
Teacher marks assignments
For credit
Structured learning
Massive open online course
Open participation
8-15 minute interactive videos
Lecture and conversation (many-to-many)
Internet resources
Assignments optional
Students or computers mark assignments
Credit optional
Connectivism learning

6. MOOC Providers The largest and most well known MOOC provider;
entrepreneurial and building a global presence
Originally a MOOC provider for the elite universities,
now in partnership with Google in mooc.org
Most promising business model with emphasis on technology courses and job placement
Regional MOOC providers for the UK and Australia
These “MOOC-like” providers also exist

7. The MOOC Cometh
Initially MOOCs were portrayed as a disruptive force in online education. So….
Is this happening?
What next for MOOCs?
What can we learn?

8. The Gartner Hype Cycle
The Gartner Hype Cycle is a graphical representation of the adoption, growing maturity and application of specific technologies

9. MOOCs on the Gartner Hype Cycle
2013: MOOC-as-a-disruptive-force articles are everywhere
Late mid 2013: MOOC-for-credit schemes emerge at Antioch Univ, Univ of Calgary and Georgia Tech
2 Nov 2012: NY Times declares 2012 the Year of the MOOC
April 2012: Coursera launches with four partners; now 122
Oct-Dec 2011: Sebastian Thrun's AI MOOC attracts 160,000 registrants
2008: 1st cMOOC taught by George Siemens and Stephen Downes
Internet, Web 2.0, Khan's Academy, OpenCourseWare, iTunesU

10. The Gartner Hype Cycle
Sept 2013: Princeton Prof with showcase MOOC dumps Coursera Why? MOOCs are cutting funding to state universities
Nov 2013: Sebastian Thrun: "We don't educate people as I wished"
Dec 2013: MOOCs are mostly for rich white people with degrees
2014: massive debate on massive drop-out rate
2014: MOOC disasters, missing MOOCs, etc.
Ongoing: Where is the business model? When/how will anyone make money?

11. The Gartner Hype Cycle June 2015: MOOC revenue models emerge
Early 2014: learning analytics emerges
April 2015: Global Freshmen Academy announced
Sept 2013: edX and Google partner in mooc.org
Sept 2013: job market embraces MOOCs (WS Journal)
Jan 2013: Coursera launches Signature Track: verifiable certificates, $$$

12. MOOC Futures in the Plateau of Productivity
University-based MOOCs stabilise
Few new, few disappear, many repeat, few refresh
Professional-based MOOCs emerge
MOOC-based professional development
Fees for assessment and credit
MOOCs support competency-based education
"Hire education"
New credential: digital badges
Learning analytics
Big data comes to higher education
open platform for MOOC dvlpmt
230 million: data points collected about student learning in an edX MOOC

13. MOOCs in New Zealand University of Waikato Massey University
Data Mining with Weka; More Data Mining with Weka
Offered independently
5 weeks
Massey University
Emergency Management; Indigenous Studies; Agriculture and the World We Live In
Offered thru Open2Study
2-4 hours per week * 4 weeks = 8-16 hours
Try-it-and-they-will-come business model

14. MOOCs in New Zealand University of Auckland University of Otago
Data to Insight: Introduction to Data Analysis; Academic Integrity: Values, Skills, Action; Logical and Critical Thinking
Offered through FutureLearn
4 hours per week * 8 weeks = 24 hours
University of Otago
Not for us, thank you
AUT, Victoria, Canterbury, etc.
No announced plans

15. The Diverse Intentions of the MOOC Student
sign up and never log in
log in, browse, never actively participate
actively participate but never complete the course
complete the course videos, but nothing else
complete the course including some/all assignmts
Source:

16. Lessons Learned
Students drop out because they get busy, but rapid intervention can get them to return.
Lesson: monitor student activity and follow up promptly after a short period period of inactivity.
Source: Practical Guidance from MOOC Research: Helping Busy Students Stick to Plans
Online learning is an emotional experience.
Lesson: look for opportunities to excite, thrill and engage students
Lesson: understand more why your students learn
Source: The Invisible Learners Taking MOOCs

17. Lessons Learned
Students learn most by doing, not so much just watching.
E-Learning must be more than videos and online quizzes; use exercises, assignments
Source: Practical Guidance from MOOC Research: Students Learn More from Doing than Watching
The lecture hall is a prime target to go blended
Lesson: if timing and content suits, integrate MOOCs into online or place-based courses
Lesson: even better, “flip the classroom”
Source: From Disruptor to Bestie: How Instructors are Learning to Leverage MOOCs; many others

18. Lessons Learned
MOOCs offer many different approaches to model online education, learn from them.
Lesson: Give faculty professional development time to explore innovative MOOC teaching models
Source: How Universities Might use MOOCs to Encourage Online Teaching
Student assessment is about as effective as instructor assessment, and more engaging
Lesson: Include some element of peer assessment in instruction
Source: Why it Makes Sense for Students to Grade One Another’s Papers

19. Lessons Learned
Mastery of learning is best through short videos with short quizzes for formative assessment
Lesson: Break up content into 8-15 minute videos
Lesson: Add “pop-up” questions in the video and/or at the end.
Source: Pedagogical Foundations of Massive Open Online Courses
e-Learning offers many opportunities to understand how your students learn
Lesson: As much as possible, deploy learning analytics in your learning management and video delivery systems
Example: Retention and Intention in MOOCs: In-Depth

20. Leadership in Educational Entrepreneurship through Badges
2013 Enterprise IT Leadership Conference
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