Dr Venkataraman Balaji

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Dr Venkataraman Balaji Director, Technology and Knowledge Management Faculty Workshop on a MOOC on Life Skills for Engineers Kanpur, India | 27 November 2017

Why MOOC While Teaching Life Skills? MOOC can contribute to development in general To skills development, in particular

MOOCs Can be an ally in Open Learning Provide access to quality learning at low costs. Build capacity at scale Improve learning outcomes, through the use of alternative pedagogical approaches Be integrated within national quality assurance frameworks.

MOOC as a Tech Suite…. scalability media technology assessment techniques online online event/ conferencing management MOOC as a Tech Suite….

Diversification in MOOCs No longer limited to credit orientation Not limited to Higher Education sector No longer limited to Higher Education Not confined to credit oriented courses

Re-engineering the Tech Suite in MOOC MOOC portal of Ministry of HRD, India (built by Microsoft) For-profits in China, such as 163.com

Why is re-engineering necessary for MOOC4D in Open Education Reaching Out to Faculty with no exposure to TEL Learners not comfortable with peer-grading and online socialising paradigms in industry-grade MOOCs Strongly felt need for mentoring in the course space Video demands bandwidth implies reasonable or high costs to learners

COL’s MOOC4Dev Adaptation Re-engineering and innovation

COL and Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur partnership MooKIT platform Scalable to tens of thousands at low cost Uses publicly accessible video streaming services (such as YouTube) Content is open (OER) Audio track of video accessible on a phone Scripts of talks and slides available (as PDF) Integrates Social Media into the course discussion space

COL’s MOOC for Development: Overview 18 MOOCs on topics related to Human and Sustainable Development 3 MOOCs using just basic cell phones as access devices Total of 20,000 learners from 112 countries Platform used for capture of analytic data covers more offerings by partners About 112,000 learners in all in 30 months

MOOCs for Agriculture Online learning Food and Ag sector underserved A consortium conceptualised by COL, anchored at IIT-Kanpur

Important to allow content access in multiple formats

Certificate is not the main source of motivation Responses gathered from several hundred participants in each MOOC

Methods of Access (Sample from a MOOC, Sep 2017)

Methods of Access (Data from a MOOC, 10 October 2017)

An “Off-lined” MOOC?

Reaching the Bottom Billion Content should be designed for delivery in low bandwidth Be able to deliver on a basic phone Social media integration is a must Online peer-to-peer interactions must be supplemented with blended approaches Content should be open ie. OER

Quality

Guidelines for Quality COL Guidelines for MOOCs Purpose decides quality indicators Context critical Accreditation agencies looking for credit equivalence

One size does not fit all Issues for Quality Student verification and academic integrity Peer assessment needs to be accepted Delinking of the institutions which teach and the institutions which offer credential

National Policy View MOOC as a new, interactive broadcast medium Develop credible QA and Credentialing framework Focus on Higher Education as well as advanced skills development/in-service training Develop and nurture a capable and robust infrastructure Manage costs: adopt OER policies

Finally, for developing countries New model of MOOCs required, one that reaches the unreached MOOCs will supplement rather than replace traditional institutions Excellent platform for skilling at scale and speed

Two major developments Can influence MOOC for Development in a big way Rise of Messaging Paradigm Messaging today is bigger than social media! WhatsApp, WeChat and Messenger have more users daily than all social media combined Easier to access even at low bandwidth (e,g India has 200 M users of WhatsApp) Blockchains Enable unique records of learners to be maintained across institutions and offerings Applied research still needs to be done Major opportunity for developing countries to claim leadership

Thank You col.org