The New York Times said that 2012 was “the year of the MOOC” EDUCAUSE said that they have “the potential to alter the relationship between learner and instructor and between academe and the wider community.” Can a course where the participants and the course materials are distributed across the web and the courses are "open" and offered at no cost to a very large number of participants who do not receive institutional credit be a worthwhile venture for a college?

1. Everybody Wants to MOOC the World
Academia and the MOOC
Ken Ronkowitz
@ronkowitz Ronkowitz.com

2. The New York Times said that 2012 was “the year of
the MOOC”
EDUCAUSE said that they have “the potential to alter
the relationship between learner and instructor and
between academe and the wider community.”
Can a course where the participants and the course
materials are distributed across the web and the
courses are "open" and offered at no cost to a very
large number of participants who do not receive
institutional credit be a worthwhile venture for a
college?

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

8. Some History
“MOOC” is coined in 2008 by Dave Cormier &
Bryan Alexander in response to
an earlier open online course that had been
designed and led by George Siemens and
Stephen Downes.
"Connectivism and Connective Knowledge," had
25 tuition-paying students at the University of
Manitoba in addition to 2300 other students
from the public who took the online class free of
charge for no credit.)

9. History
Pedagogically, much of the course activity, interaction
and collaboration was expected to come from the
participants.
2012 - Sebastian Thrun leaves his teaching position at
Stanford University to start Udacity using the artificial
intelligence course that he was teaching and had
made freely available in 2011.
Coursera, a for-profit company that also came from
Stanford roots has as of December 2012 2 million
students from 196 countries who have enrolled in at
least one course.
edX - a not-for-profit online education initiative using
courses provided initially by MIT, Harvard, and the
University of California, Berkeley.

10. Evolution
First there were MOOCs…
• cMOOC
• xMOOC
• MOCC (Mid-sized Online Closed Course)
• BOOC (Big Online Open Course <500 )
• Hybrid MOOC (delivery and/or student body)
• For-profit providers (filling a vacuum)
• Accreditation…

11. cMOOC
connectivist
versus xMOOC
instructivist
networks tasks contents
https://www.ai-class.com/
http://ds106.us/history/
https://www.coursera.org/
http://lisahistory.net/wordpress/2012/08/three-kinds-of-moocs/

12. We have just started the debate
Pros and Cons
Nice company (Stanford, It’s
MIT, Harvard, Duke…) Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Du
Potential new students and ke…
revenue Show me the money (and
the credit)
Developing new strategies
for the design and teaching Is anyone learning
of online courses. anything in these MOOCs?

13. Reboot California
ODG-COT Discussion
January 2013
MOOC Providers
Faculty Representatives
•Cost = $1 per oAccreditation requires small class sizes
class per student
oLarge lectures have been discredited as a teaching tool
•A/B testing gain oThe cost of undergraduate education has been going
be done as fast as down; the drivers for tax and tuition increases are
Amazon gives administrative, athletic, and research costs
feedback to users
oAutomation might mean that the “Haves” attend
•Peer to peer residential colleges & the “Have-Nots” get online
assistance education & the “Have-Nothings” receive neither due to
compensates for lack of technology and Internet access.
large class sizes oPeer-to-peer assistance may work in elite universities but
•Mentors can be community college and state university students need
provided @$ professional assistance

14. Stakeholders & Roles

15. Faculty
Designers
Institution - Administration
Support
• IT, Help Desk, Admissions, Online Learning
Students
And any blend of the above…

16. It is truly worldwide

17. La Condition Semantique
Autonomie, diversité, liberté, interactivité
Ces conditions sont les conditions d'un dialogue
constructif…
et sont donc les principes de conception d'un MOOC
http://itforum.coe.uga.edu/paper92/paper92.html

18. The Semantic Condition
Autonomy, diversity, openness, interactivity
These conditions are the conditions for a constructive
dialogue…
And are thus the design principles for a MOOC
http://itforum.coe.uga.edu/paper92/paper92.html

19. 6,000 Courses for Lifelong Learners
myeducationpath.com/courses has 6000 courses
And is one of lesser known MOOC providers
serendipity35.net/index.php?/archives/2744-MOOC-Providers.html

20. We want to further the conversation amongst educators…

21. Academia & the MOOC
A massive (well, Big)
open (free) Online Course
(actually, more of a conversation)
on MOOCs in Academia
April 15 – May 12
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22. Everybody Wants to MOOC the World
Academia and the MOOC
Ken Ronkowitz
@ronkowitz Ronkowitz.com