Massive Open Online Courses (MOOOCs) and other trends point to an open and digital future for higher education. Early MOOCs saw enormous enrollments, such as a course on artificial intelligence that had over 160,000 students enrolled. Major MOOC platforms now offer hundreds of free online courses from top universities. This proliferation of free online college courses could reshape higher education over the next decade as open educational resources, teaching, accreditation, and research expand.

1. MOOCs
and other future trends in
Higher Education
4th August 2012
Compiled by:
Akhlesh Agarwal
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2. What’s a MOOC
• Massive Open Online Course
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course
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3. Some early MOOCs

4. • 160,000 enrollments,
(More than all other CS
professors in the world
combined can teach AI
in their life)
• 23000 students pass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkneoNrfadk
the course
• 253 get perfect score
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5. Poster boys of open education
http://www.khanacademy.org/ https://www.coursera.org
With over 3,300 videos on Started by some faculty from
everything from arithmetic to Stanford
physics, finance, and history 20+ people , 100+ courses
and hundreds of skills to practice
http://www.udacity.com/
https://www.edx.org/ By Sebastial Thrun of Stanford AI
MIT + Harvard + Berkley course fame
Currently 7 courses Currently 11 courses
Learn for free, pay a little to get a
certificate
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6. Free online college courses are
proliferating
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8. A decade of openness
Open education resources
Open teaching
Open courses
Open accreditation (very early stages)
Open research (coming soon)
Courtesy George Siemens

9. http://openbadges.org/en-US/

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11. A model for the future of university integration?

12. Other open initiatives
http://www.gutenberg.org/
40,000 free eBooks
http://oreilly.com/openbook/
"open" copyright books
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13. Future of Hi Ed ??
Epic2020
http://epic2020.org/
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14. Thank you
akhlesh.agarwal@gmail.com
@akhlesha
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