massively open online courses (moocs)

Massively Open Online CoursesMOOC

Dr. Charles Severance <csev@umich.edu>http://www.dr-chuck.com/

Twitter: @drchuck

https://www.coursera.org/course/insidetheinternet

Current MOOC Players

• Coursera - Daphne Koller and Andrew NG (Stanford CS Profs)

• Stanford, Princeton, Michigan, UPenn, (Berkeley)

• Udacity - Sebastian Thrun (Stanford CS Prof)

• edX - Anant Agarwal (MIT CS Prof)

• MIT, Harvard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBNe8CUePTQ

https://www.coursera.org/course/insidetheinternet

A Bit of History

1995 - Internet: TCICharles Severance / Richard Wiggins

https://vimeo.com/4275919 00:52

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http://www.syncomat.com/

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http://www-personal.umich.edu/~csev/csev/projects/cb2k/index.htm

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©"2012"IMS"Global"Learning"Consor6um,"Inc.""All"Rights"Reserved"

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Certified - LMS •  Desire2Learn"Learning"Environment"v8.4.2"and"v9.0"•  Blackboard"9.1SP4"•  Moodle"2.2"•  Jenzabar"JICS"v7.2"and"eMRacer"v1.2"•  Learning"Objects"Campus"Pack"v4.2"•  Sakai"v2.7"•  OLAT"7.0"•  GeNIE,"OpenMSource"LMS"v1.0"•  Canvas"Instructure"•  Moodle"1.9"Basic"LTI"Module"•  PowerLink"for"Blackboard"WebCT"v8"

hVp://www.imsglobal.org/cc/statuschart.html" 2011

©"2012"IMS"Global"Learning"Consor6um,"Inc.""All"Rights"Reserved"

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The"Ring"of"Compliance"

2011

Faculty Member

• Hired UMich School of Information - 2007

• Founded Undergraduate Program in Informatics

• Promoted to Clinical Associate Professor - 2010

• Wrote two text books and a "memoir"

• Developed seven new courses - many open

• Worked as part of a team to build new Bachelors Degree

www.pythonlearn.com - my own attempt at open, live, and interactive

2011 - The Year of the MOOC

• Prior work: David Wiley, Stephen Downes, George Siemens

• Stanford AI class - 100K students

• MITx (MIT)

• Udacity (Stanford)

• Coursera (Stanford)

2011 - I am getting angry..

• Michigan is not involved in any MOOC efforts

• Sakai OAE has lots of investment but is moving too slowly

• Michigan delays upgrading to Sakai 2.9 until January 2013 at the earliest

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-17012968

https://class.coursera.org/modelthinking/ March 8, 2012

Date: March 9, 2012 9:16:54 AM CSTTo: feedback+course@coursera.orgCc: MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey <jmm@umich.edu>Subject: I would like to Teach a Course on Coursera - Internet History and Technology

Dear Coursera,

I would like to teach a course on Coursera titled "Internet History and Technology". As background, I teach a course titled "SI502 - Networked Computing: Storage, Communication, and Processing"

It is a course on technology for non-technologists.   I attach its syllabus ...

Date: March 10, 2012 10:02:52 PM CST (Saturday)From: MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey <jmm@umich.edu>Subject: Re: I would like to Teach a Course ...

Chuck,

Martha is in charge of Coursera if you want to approach her directly.

Jeff

Date: March 11, 2012 4:23:20 PM CDT (Sunday)From: Martha Pollack <pollackm@umich.edu>Subject: RE: I would like to Teach a Course on Coursera To: Charles Severance <csev@umich.edu>Cc: MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey <jmm@umich.edu>

Yes, yes, yes, I’d love to have you do this, as part of the initial group of UM faculty developing Coursera courses!   I’m scrambling right now,  so will send you more information later (either this evening or tomorrow), and then we can talk. --Martha

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What does Massive Mean?

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Getting to Massive Size...

• Online education is not the "enemy" of residential institutions

• Social duty to "teach the world" - cannot build buildings fast enough

• Accept that "at a distance" is not the same as face to face

• Start as an experiment - iterate

• At 100,000+ students - cannot compensate in office hours or questions after class - must think through materials

Coursera Tools Enable Scale

• Short chunked video lectures with embedded interactive activities to test knowledge

• Wide range of auto-graded assessments including peer grading of writing

• Discussion groups - peer help

• Authoring feels to me like writing a video-enhanced interactive book with deeply integrated assessment and community building and collaboration tools

Internet History, Technology, and Security

• Highly visual - many videos of history makers

• Critical thinking - humanities / social science

• I want to use it as a platform to experiment

Summary

• It is early days but things are off and running

• It is not at all clear how this will shake out or what platform will win

• It is a bad time to be on the sidelines...

• It is a great time to be a teacher who wants to play in the future

https://www.coursera.org/course/insidetheinternet