1. The Quest for Knowledge:
How MOOCs Provide Insights for Innovation in
Modeling and Simulation
Jay Gendron, SimIS Inc.
www.linkedin.com/in/jaygendron/
Mark Friedman, Concurrent Technologies Corp.
www.linkedin.com/in/mkfrie
Hampton Roads, Virginia  April 15-17, 2014

2. Overview
• MOOCs?
• Framework for Comparison
• MOOC Benefits
• Knowledge Through MOOS
• Recommendations

3. MOOCs?
students
1500’s ● 1700’s ● 1990 ● Today
channels

4. Framework for Leveraging Innovation

5. MOOS!

6. Audience Participation!
MOOS!

7. Extending the Framework for M&S

8. Massive: Bartle’s Taxonomy of Player Types
Acting
Interacting
Killers
Socializers Explorers
Achievers
WorldPlayers
MMOGs
Acting
Interacting
Governors
Decision Makers Innovators
Creators
CapabilityDiscipline
MOOS

9. Summary
• Recommendations
1. Consider MOOCs as a new
business model
2. Recognize similarities
between MOOCs and MOOS
3. M&S community (4 types)
discuss the ROIs presented
4. Acknowledge the scalability
MOOCs have demonstrated
Build a better mousetrap and the
world will beat a path to your door.
- Emerson

10. Onward and Upward
If a picture is worth 1,000 words, a moving
picture is worth a 1,000 static ones, and a
truly interactive, user-controlled dynamic
picture is worth 1,000 ones that you watch
passively
- Andries van Dam