Online courses, MOOCs and the Future of Education
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ONLINE COURSES, MOOCS Bruno Morche Sociologist Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul / Brazil PhD student visiting at Institute of Education (IoE) / University of London And the future of education London – July/2014 Seminar
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ONLINE COURSES, MOOCSBruno MorcheSociologist
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul / Brazil
PhD student visiting at Institute ofEducation (IoE) / University ofLondonAnd the future of education
London – July/2014
Seminar
WHAT IS A MOOC?
Source: Visually (http://visual.ly/rise-moocs)
THE PLATFORMS...
Source: prehospitalresearch.eu (http://prehospitalresearch.eu/?p=1222)
British Platform
Most common (american platforms)
ONLINE COURSES HYPE (~2012-2013)
Source: Nature Magazine
The numbers of Coursera Platform...
22 of the top 25 US universities in US News World Report rankings are now offering courses online for free.
Until Dec/2014: 400+ universities. 2400+ courses. 16-18 million students.
This morning Courserahad 12,635,380
students enrolled
WHAT IS UNDER THE HOOD?
Source: UNESCO, 2009.
Number of students in Higher Education in the world by region (1970-2007).
From 30 millionstudents in 1970...
...To almost 160 millionstudents in 2007
HUGE DEMAND FOR HIGHER EDUCATION... MAINLY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
DIGITAL PLATFORMS (LIKE UBER, AIRBNB, GOOGLE, FACEBOOK ETC) HAVE TRANSFORMED THE WAY WE LIVE, TRAVEL, WORK AND LEARN.
IS EDUCATION NEXT?
*Interesting article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/platforms-have-transformed-economy-education-next-tom-vander-ark?trk=hp-feed-article-title-share
Plataforms are based on an open and participative
infrastructure
PLATFORMS LIKE COURSERA, EDX, UDACITY, AND SKILLSHARE HAVE REVOLUTIONZED CAREER DEVELOPMENTAND INFORMAL LEARNING. BUT...
HOW ABOUT FORMAL EDUCATION?
HOW WILL ONLINE EDUCATION AFFECT HIGHEREDUCATION?“When one professor can teach 50,000 people it alters the economics of education.”
Will MOOCs/online courses replace traditional higher education? Or they will co-exist?
MOOCS AND ONLINE COURSES ARE STILL CONTROVERSIAL DEFINITIONS...
Source: Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course)
Howaboutformal
diplomas?
Howinclusive
can online education
be?
There are many doubts...
EVERYONE CAN TAKE AN ONLINE COURSE... FOR FREEwww.coursera.orgwww.edx.orgwww.futurelearn.com
THANK YOU
Bruno Morche
Visiting at UCL Institute of Education (IoE) – London/UK
PhD candidate at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul / Brazil
Email: [email protected]
