Education on the Open Web:

The MOOC ExperienceA talk given to the Book Industry Study Group, February 7th, 2013.

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History of MOOCsA DefinitionAn ExampleA Tension PairTwo CoursesSome Concluding Thoughts

A Short History of MOOCs

Pre-20082008 – CCK082009-2010 – 10K students 2011 – Stanford AI2012 – year of the MOOC2013?

One Definition

MassiveMassive

OpenOpenhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/neosnaps/2596044654/sizes/o/in/photostream/

OnlineOnline

CourseCourse

One Example

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lljohnston/7576247296/sizes/c/in/photostream/

University of Edinburgh

More than 300,000 people have signed up to the University of Edinburgh's free massive open online courses (MOOCs) since they were first announced in July 2012

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=422568&c=1

The university is offering six courses on the Coursera platform

The majority of the courses run for five weeks and include "Astrobiology and the Search for Extra-terrestrial Life", "Artificial Intelligence Planning", "Introduction to Philosophy" and "Equine Nutrition".

Edinburgh said it aims to attract 10,000 distance learning students over the next decade. It currently has nearly 2,000 students enrolled on online taught master's programmes.

One Tension Pair

Individual

Curated Distributed

Network

Individual

Curated Distributed

Network

CMOOCHybrid MOOC

XMOOC The Learner

Two Courses

Brand of the individual

MOOCs as textbook

One Bonus Model

Brand MOOCs

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