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Rebecca Frost Davis !Director of Instructional and Emerging Technology!
Disruptive Innovations in Learning Technologies!
Liberal Education in a Networked World!• http://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com !• Slides!• More examples!
Disruptive Innovations: MOOC!• Massive: MOOCs !• Open: Open Educational Resources !• Online: Delivery or Learning Network?!!• Course: Alternative Credentials!
• A process by which a product or service takes root initially in simple applications at the bottom of a market and then relentlessly moves up market, eventually displacing established competitors !
• http://www.claytonchristensen.com/key-concepts/ !
Disruptive Innovation!
MASSIVE!MOOC!
Massive Open Online Course!
Image courtesy of Phil Hill
• Industrial (xMOOC)!– Faculty expert!– Homogeneous
Network!– One perfect lecture(r)!– Knowledge transfer!
• Networked (cMOOC)!– Peer learning!– Heterogeneous
Network!– Knowledge is situated!– Knowledge production!
Two Visions for MOOCs!
Role of Instructor?!• Content Expert? Performer?!• Unbundling roles!– Producer!– Subject area expert!– Instructional designer!– AV!
• Mentorship?!• Coaching?!
OPEN!MOOC!
(Open) Educational Resources!• Kahn Academy: www.khanacademy.org/!• Codeacademy.com!
Scarcity! Abundance!
New Roles: Curator!• Finding educational materials!• Evaluating educational materials!• Curating collections of educational materials!• Connecting materials and learners!
• Improve learning resources based on usage data!
• How do you achieve scale?!
• How do you adapt resources to your context?!
Big (Learning) Data!
Open Learning Initiative (OLI)!• Carnegie Mellon!• Computer-based, interactive
tutorials and quizzes!• Customized learning!• Instant feedback!!
ONLINE!MOOC!
“Going the Distance: Online Educa<on in the United States” (2011), p. 7. 100% MOOC Massive Open Online Course
Online Learning as Delivery Method!
Blended/Hybrid Learning!• Combining face-to-face class with online learning!• Department of Education,
Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning : A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies!
• Computer-based, interactive tutorials and quizzes that provide customized learning and instant feedback, e.g., Open Learning Initiative modules!
• Flipping the Classroom!
Blended Learning in a Liberal Arts Setting!
• Bryn Mawr College, NGLC grant-funded program!
• “Using Blended Learning in a Liberal Arts Environment to Improve Developmental and Gatekeeper STEM Course Completion, Persistence, and College Completion” !
• Open Learning Initiative modules!• http://nextgenlearning.blogs.brynmawr.edu/!
New Roles for Delivery Modes?!• What is the role of the classroom?!• How best to use face-to-face time?!• Is online a delivery mode or something more?!
The World is Flat!• Tom Friedman!• Global access to information & people!• Creating citizens & workers for this context!• Challenges!– Developing skills in this context!– Communicating across domains!
Networked Courses!• Local classes in a Larger Network!– Sunoikisis intercampus courses (ICCs) in advanced
Greek & Latin!– FemTechNet: Distributed Online Collaborative Course
(DOCC)!– History Harvest!
• Aggregate Expertise!• Share local resources!• Share local perspective!
Sunoikisis Network, Fall 2006
COURSE!MOOC!
MOOCs for Professional Development!
• Coursera MOOCs: Over 80% have a BA or higher!
• Business Models!– Credentialing: Optional certificate for a price!– MOOCs to discover talent!
• Badges!• E-portfolios!• Prior Learning
Assessment!• Competency-based
learning!
Alternative Credentials!
Discussion!• Which of these are most disruptive, how, and
why?!– MOOC!– Open Educational Resources!– Online delivery / Networked Learning!– Alternative Credentials!
Thank you!St. Edwardʼs University!
Thank you.!St. Edwardʼs University!
Thank you.!St. Edwardʼs University!
Thank you.!St. Edwardʼs University!
Thank you.!St. Edwardʼs University!