MOOCsTechnology Tuesdays

James Moore

• Telephone: +1 (312) 362-5870• Email: jmoore@depaul.edu• URL: condor.depaul.edu/jmoore/

What is a MOOC?

Massive Open Online Course

(Like MMORPG)

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Massive(ly) multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG)

www.worldofwarcraft.com

Massive

Internet history, technology, and security 2012Internet history, technology, and security 2012

Number of students signed up: 45,572

Number of students who took the Final: 5,401

Number of certificates: 4,595

Open

Open to anyone with a computer and access to the Internet

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And “Open” As In...

Open Content

Online

Course

Connectivist Broadcast

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Absent-Minded Professor

Pace

Regular Deadlines Self-Paced

Examples

• Power Searching With Googlewww.powersearchingwithgoogle.com

• Udacitywww.udacity.com

• Courserawww.coursera.org

• edXwww.edx.org

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Faculty Led

Bypassed LMS Vendors

Reasons?

• Free

• Open to all

• Very large number students

• Scalable assessment

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Business Models

• Selling student data

• Micropayments

• Selling books/merchandise

• Selling content to academia

• Charitable funding

• Work placement

Differences

• Credit

• Open vs “closed” resources

• Faculty interaction

• Expectations of the student

• Scalability

• Type of student

Best Practice

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Core Value

Certification(Assessing Learning)

Environment(a place in which learning

takes place)

How do we design these courses?

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Start At The End

Certification

Ability to...Knowledge of...Demonstration of...

Assessment

Testing

Experiment

Interaction

Make mistakes

Feedback

Instruction

Deliver material

Possible Outcomes

• Destabilize publishing

• Destabilize Higher Education

• Certificates / Badges / Credits

• Industrialization of education

• Change the role of adjuncts

• Preparatory study

• Destabilize LMS vendors

Déjà Vu All Over Again?

http://ocw.mit.edu

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Big Data

ALEKS

Assessment and LEarning in Knowledge Spaces

http://www.aleks.com

Future of Teaching?

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What Could DePaul Do?

Credit

Offer a MOOC

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UVP

Faculty

Mission

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Duration

5 Weeks 10 Weeks

8January

Platform

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James Moore

• Telephone: +1 (312) 362-5870• Email: jmoore@depaul.edu• URL: condor.depaul.edu/jmoore/

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