This document discusses MOOCs and their potential impact on higher education. It begins by defining MOOCs as massive open online courses with large enrollments that provide course materials for free. While MOOCs have generated hype around disrupting traditional universities, the document notes they are still in the early hype phase according to Gartner's Hype Cycle and it is unclear if they will truly displace established institutions. The remainder discusses one university's experience with MOOCs, online education programs, and strategies to blend open online learning with campus education.

1. To MOOC or not to MOOC
that is the Question
Willem van Valkenburg
Unless otherwise indicated, this presentation is licensed CC-BY 4.0.
Please attribute TU Delft Extension School / Willem van Valkenburg

2. What is a MOOC?
MOOC poster by Mathieu Plourde licensed CC-BY:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mathplourde/8620174342/sizes/l/in/photostream/

3. What is Massive?
CC-BY-SA chris.corwin: https://www.flickr.com/photos/70872463@N00/1477994596
CC BY martha_chapa95: https://flic.kr/p/8VQgnC

4. CC BY Tinou Bao

5. CC-BY Alan Levine:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/7155294
657/in/pool-openandclosed

6. “In order for open education to reach its varied
potentials, openness must become a core cultural
value for each and every faculty member.” David Wiley

7. Hype?

8. Gartner Hype Cycle
CC-BY-SA NeedCokeNow:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hype-Cycle-General.png

9. What’s in the News?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2012/05/06/will-edx-put-harvard-and-mit-out-of-
business/
http://www.wired.com/2014/08/whats-wrong-moocs-arent-changing-game-education/

10. Gartner Hype Cycle for MOOCs
Source: http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/cetisli/2013/06/25/moocs-and-higher-education-what-is-next/

11. The theory of
ʺdisruptive innovationʺ
„A process by which a product or service
takes root initially in simple applications at
the bottom of a market and then
relentlessly moves ‘up market’, eventually
displacing established competitors”
‒ Professor Clayton M. Christensen,
Harvard Business School
Author of Disrupting Class (2008) and The
Innovative University (2011)
Low ranked (under)
graduate
degree programs
Top ranked (under) graduate degree
programs
High ranked (under) graduate
degree programs
Clayton Christensen

12. less Controversial/Disruptive more
CC-BY Michael Feldstein
http://mfeldstein.com/keynote-year-year-mooc/

13. CC-BY US Navy: https://flic.kr/p/9PqSyd
It certainly has hype characteristics,
but for many universities it has
accelerated change

14. TU Delft
Extension School

15. Open & Online portfolio
Massive Open
Online Courses
(MOOCs)
Open
Course
Ware
(OCW)
Online Distance
Education
(ODE)
Campus
Education
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
• Learning Activities & Course Materials
• Free
• Enrolled students only, massive numbers
• Bachelors level
• Certificate of Completion
OpenCourseWare (OCW)
• Course Materials
• Free
• Big Exposure, Worldwide audience
• Both Bachelor and Master level
• No interaction with faculty
• No accredited certificate
Online Distance Education
• Learning Activities & Course Materials
• Paid enrollment
• Enrolled students only, limited numbers
• Accredited Course Certificate
• Full Master Degree
On Campus Education
• Direct access to education
• Research facilities
• World Class Library
• Student social tissue
• Student projects

16. E-Dean Director of
Education
Delft Extension School
MOOCs
Blended
Education
Online
Courses

17. DelftX Courses
Water
Treatment
Solar
Energy
Next Generation
Infrastructures
Aeronautical
Engineering
Credit Risk
Management

18. MOOC students

19. Next Generation
Infrastructures - 2
Drinking Water
Treatment
Functional
Programming
Delft Design
Approach
Technology for
Biobased Products
Solving Complex
Problems
Responsible
Innovation
Treatment of
Urban Sewage
Introduction to
Water & Climate
Introduction to
Solar Energy
Aeronautical
Engineering
Pre-University
Calculus

20. Many enrollments
In total: 258.000

21. Enrolments Numbers
Type of Education ’13-’14 ’14-’15 ’15-’16
Campus (students) 19.000 20.000 20.000
Online (enrolments) 50 500 2.000
OpenCourseWare
250.000 300.000 350.000
(visitors)
MOOCs (enrolments) 140.000 200.000 250.000

22. Online
Course
• Pay per course
• Bachelor and
master
• Single Course
• <10 EC
• Course Certificate
Series
• Pay per course
• Bachelor and
Master
• Couple of courses
• 10 -15 EC
• Formal Certificate
Module
• Pay per course
• Bachelor & Master
• Couple of
courses/series
• 30 EC
• Formal Diploma
Programme
• Pay per course
• Master
• Couple of
courses/series/modules
• > 60 EC
• Formal Master
MOOC
• Open Access
• Bachelor level
• Single course
• No EC
• Certificate of
Completion
Blended
Education
Making the best use of Open & Online, and campus education
OpenCourseWare Course materials, free, reusable, online, no certificate, no guidance/support

23. Back to the
Question

24. Is your university ready for the
CC-BY-NC Pete Ashton: https://flic.kr/p/61fuU

25. open.tudelft.nl
slideshare.net/wfvanvalkenburg
twitter.com/tudelftOCW
twitter.com/DelftX
twitter.com/wfvanvalkenburg
22-24 April