SEFI-2013 Online Learning and Higher Engineering Education: The MOOC Phenomenon
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The document discusses the rise of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and their implications for higher engineering education. It notes that MOOCs provide open access to courses from top universities, reducing costs and expanding reach compared to traditional on-campus classes. Examples are provided of very large enrollments for MOOCs from MIT and Delft University, showing their growing popularity. While MOOCs have the potential to improve teaching and encourage innovation, there are still open questions around developing sustainable business models.
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SEFI-2013 Online Learning and Higher Engineering Education: The MOOC Phenomenon
- 1. Online Learning and Higher Engineering Education The MOOC Phenomenon Pieter de Vries
- 3. Purpose of the paper • Better understanding of open education • Trends towards openness like Open Educational Courseware and Resources • Implications for Higher Engineering Education
- 4. Background of the phenomenon • Public discussion about the incompetence of HE to cope with today’s learning demands • The rising costs for students and institutions • Acceptance of Internet technologies can serve as problem solving opportunity • Open education
- 5. Open education ...... • Freely available online • Accessible and shared • Cost effective • Ability to adapt, tailor & build your own • Creative commons, freedom of info and use • Quality assurance
- 7. 155,000 Registered for 6.002x: MIT - Circuits and Electronics 7,157 Certified 8,240 Took the Final 9,318 Passed the Mid-Term 10,547 Made it the Mid-Term 26, 349 Tried the First Problem Set 154,763 Reducing Costs, Expanding Reach Same staff resources as 150 person on-campus class
- 9. DelftX Courses • September 2013 25.000 45.000 • February 2014 • Prof Jacco Hoekstra - Aerospace Engineering • Prof Margot Weijnen – Critical Infrastructures
- 10. The attack of the MOOCs An army of new online courses is scaring the wits out of traditional universities. But can they find a viable business model?
- 11. Conclusion • MOOCs have an important impact on improving teaching and learning • Encourage institutions to develop distinctive missions • To be successful one needs clever designs, wellorganized technical and organizational settings • Online learning as a solution provider
Editor's Notes
- In the past this was the way that we tried to teach.We had a ‘strange common understanding’: some thought teaching was learning, so learning predominantly took place in the class room.
- What is it?And what are the ‘criteria’?
- Looking at it from the ‘entry’ side, but also from the ‘supplier’ side
- The flipped funnelExtraordinary cost savings potential
- Eenplaatjeuit de economist.