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Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
The document outlines the evolution and current landscape of massive open online courses (MOOCs), emphasizing the involvement of prominent institutions like Coursera, edX, and Udacity. Dr. Charles Severance expresses his intention to teach a course on 'internet history and technology' while highlighting the transformative potential of online education. It underscores the need for innovation and collaboration in education, signaling a significant shift in teaching methodologies.
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- 1. Massively Open OnlineCourses 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
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- 6. 1994 1995 - Internet: TCI Charles Severance / Richard Wiggins https://vimeo.com/4275919 00:52
- 7. 1996 http://www.syncomat.com/
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- 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" hVp://www.imsglobal.org/cc/statuschart.html" ©"2012"IMS"Global"Learning"Consor6um,"Inc.""All"Rights"Reserved" 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 - myown attempt at open, live, and interactive
- 20. 2011 - TheYear of the MOOC • Prior work: David Wiley, Stephen Downes, George Siemens • Stanford AI class - 100K students • MITx (MIT) • Udacity (Stanford) • Coursera (Stanford)
- 21. 2011 - Iam 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
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- 24. Date: March9, 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: March10, 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: March11, 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
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- 29. What does MassiveMean?
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- 31. Getting to MassiveSize... • 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 EnableScale • 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