workshop: lessons from online and edx / mitx courses
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Presented by Brandon Muramatsu and M.S. Vijay Kumar at KFUPM on August 27, 2014TRANSCRIPT
Workshop: Lessons from Online and edX / MITx Courses
M.S. Vijay Kumar, [email protected] Muramatsu, [email protected]
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
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Agenda
Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: What are your online course experiences?
Part 3: A Brief History of MOOCs
Break
Part 4: Highlights of Online Courses and MOOCs
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Part 1: Introduction
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Vijay’s Background
B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering, M.S. in Industrial Management & Ed.D. in Future Studies in Education Research in educational technology innovation diffusion
Taught courses in introductory programming, data communications, instructional computing, future studies, and teacher education
30+ years in EdTech – Developing, managing, & innovating educational uses of information technologies 10+ years in Open Education: Open Educational Resources and
OpenCourseWare
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Brandon’s Background
B.S. & M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Taught multimedia design and open education
20+ years in EdTech ~10 years in educational digital libraries: Collections, nationwide
collaborations, quality and peer review
10+ years in Open Education: Open Educational Resources and OpenCourseWare
“Been There, Done That” Multimedia courseware design and course support, course design,
video production software design, digital libraries, metadata, learning objects, open educational resources/OpenCourseWare, …
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Goals & Objectives for the Workshops
Help you understand how we think about educational technologies, and how they support pedagogy and learning
See some examples of educational technologies, to help you understand a range of possibilities
Identify how KFUPM can implement online/digital learning
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Goals for this Morning
Understand your experiences with online courses and MOOC courses
Understand some of the highlights from online / digital courses and our edX / MITx experiences
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Part 2: What are your online course experiences?
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What are your online course experiences?
Have you designed an online course? What were your experiences?
Have you taken… an online course?
a MOOC?
What were your experiences?
(Have you designed a MOOC?)
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Worked Well Could be Improved
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A Brief History of MOOCs
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A Brief History of MOOCs
The Canadians and cMOOCs
Artificial Intelligence course with 150,000+ registrants
xMOOCs and a number of players edX, Coursera, Udacity, FutureLearn, etc., etc.
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What are key characteristics of a MOOC?
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Which of these features of MOOCs do you have now (in Blackboard)?
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What we find interesting about MOOCs
It is their scale! Potential reach
Engaged users, varied backgrounds and needs
It is their departure from “traditional” online courses Interleaving of content and varied parameterized assessment
Infinite formative assessment
Potential to radically change what we think of as an online course, and how we teach online / offline
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Part 3: Highlights of Online Courses and MOOCs
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Key Themes
Experimentation and validation
Learning outcomes/objectives and assessments
Modularity
Design of the experience
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Why MOOCs at MIT?
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Why did MIT start offering MOOCs / Online?
Advances our institutional mission Builds upon MIT OpenCourseWare sharing of course materials
Increasing opportunity to use online to significantly impact learning at MIT Enables us to focus on updating our teaching methods
Breaks down barriers of time and space (i2.002)
Enables us to rethink “courses” via modularity (i2.002)
Improve learning outcomes (3.091, Chemistry Bridge, 16.90)
Enable hands-on learning, and other “valuable” teaching / learning methods (3.091)
Future of Education at MIT
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3.091 / 3.091x
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3.091 Introduction to Solid State Chemistry
One of two chemistry classes fulfilling MIT’s general education requirements in chemistry
Prof. Michael Cima developed 3.091x(MITx version of the course)
Course has learning objectives for each module, and assessments linked to those learning objectives
Originally skeptical of the approaches used in of 3.091x would be comparable to the residential course
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3.091x Assessments
Originally skeptical of the approaches used in of 3.091x would be comparable to the residential course
Analyzing Fall 2012 data convinced the faculty that the online assessments were effective
3.091x learners did well on the final exam when compared with residential learners Final exam questions were the same as those used with
residential students
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3.091x Assessments – Fall 2012
3.091x learners did well on the final exam when compared with residential learners Final exam questions were the same as those
used with residential students
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class: numerically correct answer; closed book (no partial credit) edx: first attempt to answer numerically correct score; open book
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Impacting 3.091 at MIT
Experiment to see if replacing traditional homework assignments and in-class quizzes, with entirely online assessments would lead to same learning outcomes with MIT students The secret? The answer is yes!
New Format—Proctored weekly quizzes Created testing center proctored by TAs
Students come in and take online assessments every week; they can take the assessments multiple times but must wait 24 hours between attempts
In Class—More experiments and examples
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Comparing 3.091 in 2012 and 2013
Students scored significantly better on assessments (by learning outcome) using online assessments derived from 3.091x and no homework or quizzes.
Workshop: Lessons from Online and edX / MITx Courses
M.S. Vijay Kumar, [email protected] Muramatsu, [email protected]
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Cite as: Kumar, V. & Muramatsu, B. (2014c, August). Lessons from online courses and edX / MITx courses. Workshop presented at KFUPM. Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.