My presentation at Oxford 31-May-2012 regarding my perceptions as a Coursera instructor and my outlook on MOOCs in general.

1. Massively Open Online Courses
MOOC
Dr. Charles Severance <csev@umich.edu>
http://www.dr-chuck.com/
Twitter: @drchuck
https://www.coursera.org/course/insidetheinternet

2. Current MOOC Players
• Coursera - Daphne Koller and Andrew NG (Stanford CS Profs)
• Stanford, Princeton, Michigan, UPenn, (Berkeley)
• Udacity - Sebastian Thrun (Stanford CS Prof)
• edX - Anant Agarwal (MIT CS Prof)
• MIT, Harvard

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBNe8CUePTQ

4. https://www.coursera.org/course/insidetheinternet

5. A Bit of History

6. 1994
1995 - Internet: TCI
Charles Severance / Richard Wiggins
https://vimeo.com/4275919 00:52

7. 1996
http://www.syncomat.com/

8. 1998
!

9. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~csev/papers/1998/due1198e.pdf 1998

10. !
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1998 !

11. You are Here
1998

12. 1998

13. 1999
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~csev/csev/projects/cb2k/index.htm

14. 1995
1996
1998
1999
!
2004
2008

15. Certified - LMS
• Desire2Learn"Learning"Environment"v8.4.2"and"v9.0"
• Blackboard"9.1SP4"
• Moodle"2.2"
• Jenzabar"JICS"v7.2"and"eMRacer"v1.2"
• Learning"Objects"Campus"Pack"v4.2"
• Sakai"v2.7"
• OLAT"7.0"
• GeNIE,"OpenMSource"LMS"v1.0"
• Canvas"Instructure"
• Moodle"1.9"Basic"LTI"Module"
• PowerLink"for"Blackboard"WebCT"v8"
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2011
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16. The"Ring"of"Compliance"
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2011
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17. Faculty Member
• Hired UMich School of Information - 2007
• Founded Undergraduate Program in Informatics
• Promoted to Clinical Associate Professor - 2010
• Wrote two text books and a "memoir"
• Developed seven new courses - many open
• Worked as part of a team to build new Bachelors Degree

19. www.pythonlearn.com - my own attempt at open, live, and interactive

20. 2011 - The Year of the MOOC
• Prior work: David Wiley, Stephen Downes, George
Siemens
• Stanford AI class - 100K students
• MITx (MIT)
• Udacity (Stanford)
• Coursera (Stanford)

21. 2011 - I am getting angry..
• Michigan is not involved in any MOOC efforts
• Sakai OAE has lots of investment but is moving too slowly
• Michigan delays upgrading to Sakai 2.9 until January 2013 at the
earliest

22. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-17012968

23. https://class.coursera.org/modelthinking/ March 8, 2012

24. Date:
March 9, 2012 9:16:54 AM CST
To:
feedback+course@coursera.org
Cc:
MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey <jmm@umich.edu>
Subject:
I would like to Teach a Course on Coursera - Internet
History and Technology
Dear Coursera,
I would like to teach a course on Coursera titled "Internet
History and Technology". As background, I teach a course titled
"SI502 - Networked Computing: Storage, Communication, and
Processing"
It is a course on technology for non-technologists. I attach its
syllabus ...

25. Date:
March 10, 2012 10:02:52 PM CST (Saturday)
From:
MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey <jmm@umich.edu>
Subject:
Re: I would like to Teach a Course ...
Chuck,
Martha is in charge of Coursera if you want to approach her
directly.
Jeff

26. Date:
March 11, 2012 4:23:20 PM CDT (Sunday)
From:
Martha Pollack <pollackm@umich.edu>
Subject:
RE: I would like to Teach a Course on Coursera
To:
Charles Severance <csev@umich.edu>
Cc:
MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey <jmm@umich.edu>
Yes, yes, yes, I’d love to have you do this, as part of the initial group
of UM faculty developing Coursera courses! I’m scrambling right
now, so will send you more information later (either this evening
or tomorrow), and then we can talk.
--Martha

27. 1995
1996
2004
2013
2008

29. What does Massive Mean?

30. 01:27 / 2:37

31. Getting to Massive Size...
• Online education is not the "enemy" of residential institutions
• Social duty to "teach the world" - cannot build buildings fast enough
• Accept that "at a distance" is not the same as face to face
• Start as an experiment - iterate
• At 100,000+ students - cannot compensate in office hours or questions
after class - must think through materials

32. Coursera Tools Enable Scale
• Short chunked video lectures with embedded interactive activities to test
knowledge
• Wide range of auto-graded assessments including peer grading of writing
• Discussion groups - peer help
• Authoring feels to me like writing a video-enhanced interactive book with
deeply integrated assessment and community building and collaboration
tools

33. Internet History, Technology,
and Security
• Highly visual - many videos of history makers
• Critical thinking - humanities / social science
• I want to use it as a platform to experiment

34. Summary
• It is early days but things are off and running
• It is not at all clear how this will shake out or what platform will win
• It is a bad time to be on the sidelines...
• It is a great time to be a teacher who wants to play in the future
https://www.coursera.org/course/insidetheinternet