MOOCs, Boutique Subjects, and Marginal Approaches
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This roundtable addresses what happens to marginal approaches (e.g., feminist, queer, disability, racial) and boutique subjects (e.g., medieval studies) in the MOOC paradigm.
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MOOCs, Boutique Subjects, and Marginal Approaches
- 1. MOOCs, Boutique Subjects, and Marginal Approaches (#s399)! Rebecca Frost Davis, Director of Instructional and Emerging Technology, St. Edward’s University!
- 2. Liberal Education in a Networked World! • http://rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com ! – Slides! – Resources! • Twitter! – @frostdavis! – #mla14 #s399!
- 4. MOOC Curriculum?! • Class Central, https://www.class-central.com/, a MOOC aggregator! • Lists courses from Coursera, Udacity, edX, NovoED, & others ! • 1325 courses categorized by subject! • 1745 total! – 1059 finished! – 129 in progress! – 557 future !!
- 5. Percentage by Subject! Humani0es 5% 3% Computer Science 16% 7% Business & Management Science 7% 15% 10% Health & Medicine Educa0on & Teaching Mathema0cs & Stats 10% 14% 13% Social Sciences Engineering Art & Design
- 6. Boutique Majors & Marginal Approaches! • Boutique majors: Medieval studies, classics, the less studied foreign languages ! – 12% of humanities! – 2% of total! • Marginal approaches: feminist, queer, race, and disability perspectives ! – 6% of humanities! – 1% of total!
- 7. Massive Open Online Course! Image courtesy of Phil Hill
- 8. Two Visions for MOOCs! • Industrial (xMOOC)! – Faculty expert! – Homogeneous Network! – One perfect lecture(r)! – Knowledge transfer! • Networked (cMOOC)! – Peer learning! – Heterogeneous Network! – Knowledge is situated! – Knowledge production!
- 9. Online Learning as Delivery Method! 100% MOOC Massive Open Online Course “Going the Distance: Online Educa0on in the United States” (2011), p. 7.
- 10. Networks!
- 11. The Long Tail! Mass Industrializa0on MOOC Mass Customiza0on Amazon Small Liberal Arts Colleges Humani0es Projects Local
- 12. Reading the Gesta Francorum!
- 13. FemTechNet! • See paper 1 in #s369, "Feminist Dialogues on Technology," Elizabeth Mathews Losh, Univ. of California, San Diego! • Distributed Online Collaborative Course (DOCC)! • FAQ for FemTechNet! • 18 nodes!
- 14. More examples of Networked Courses!
- 15. Slide courtesy of Lisa Spiro, “Open Educa0on and MOOCs”
- 16. Slide courtesy of Lisa Spiro, “Open Educa0on and MOOCs”
- 17. Networked Courses! • Local classes in a Larger Network! – Sunoikisis intercampus courses (ICCs) in advanced Greek & Latin! – History Harvest! • Aggregate Expertise! • Share local resources! • Share local perspective! Sunoikisis Network, Fall 2006
- 18. Sunoikisis! • • • • National consortium of Classics programs! http://www.sunoikisis.org ! Summer Course Planning Seminars! Intercampus Team Taught Courses! – Weekly live online sessions using desktop videoconferencing! – Remaining course meetings on individual campuses!
- 19. Hybrid Model! Barbara Means et al. Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies. U.S. Department of Education Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development Policy and Program Studies Service, September 2010. ! http://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/! eval/tech/evidence-based-! practices/finalreport.pdf. ! Southwestern University Students A]end Greek Class
- 20. http://lookingforwhitman.org! • Personal student blogs! • Aggregation via tags and news feeds!
- 21. Looking for Whitman in . . .! • New York City College of Technology (CUNY)! • New York University! • University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA! • Rutgers University-Camden ! • University of Novi Sad (Serbia)! • Gold, Matthew. “Disrupting Institutional Barriers! Through Digital Humanities Pedagogy.” Diversity & ! Democracy 15, no. 2 (2012). !