Seminario eMadrid "Reinventar la educación". Anant Agarwal, edX. Reimagining Education. 2015-12-02. UC3M

1. Reimagining Education
Anant Agarwal
edX.org
@agarwaledu

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4. edX.org is a Non-Profit Founded by Harvard and MIT
Expand
access to
quality
education
Advance
research
Improve on-
campus
education

5. Expanding Access
Expand
access to
quality
education
Advance
research
5
Improve on-
campus
education

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6MM Learners 196+
All Countries
20MM
Course Enrollments
750 Courses
English, French,
Mandarin, Hindi
~100
Institutions
200+
Blended Classes
15,000+ Enrollments
The edX Impact

7. 155,000 Students Enrolled in First Course
7,157
Passed Course and Certified
8,240
Scored on the Final
9,318
Passed the Mid-Term
10,547
Scored on the Mid-Term
26,349
Scored on First Problem Set
154,763
Registered for 6.002x
Circuits and Electronics
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69,221
Looked at first Pset
95,000
Looked at something

8. Who are edX learners?
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9. Credentialing and Course Sequences
Verified
Certificates of
Achievement
60% pass

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0
Powered by
Lagunita.Stanford.edu

11. “…this summer Lektorium
opened a course, intended to
develop Russian community of
OpenedX users” –
www.lektorium.tv
Russian National Online Platform Openedu.ru
Launched Sep 14, 2015 Powered by
46
Courses

12. Accelerating Open edX Adoption Worldwide
2000 Courses
150 Sites in
multiple
languages
*Likely order of magnitude more courses on sites we do not know about

13. Advancements in improving education
Expand
access to
quality
education
Advance
research
Improve
on campus
education
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3

14. Anatomy of an edX Online Class – Active Learning
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Learning and retention is related to
the depth of mental processing.
-Craik and Lockhart 1972

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5
Instant Feedback

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17. Green checkmark has reached meme status
1
7

18. Numeric
Formula
String
Image
input
Can use regexp to
validate answer
Student selects point on image
Rich Problem Types
Drag and drop

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9
Virtual Labs and Gamification

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0
Virtual Labs and Gamification

21. MOOCs Get Personal
MOOC evolution

22. Team mates

23. MOOCs Get Personal
Teams and Cohorts
Teachers Alumni Co-Workers
Geography Friends Language

24. Improving on Campus Education– Blended Learning
San Jose State University
FALL 2012 COMPARED TO SPRING 2012
Course retake rates drop from 41% to 9%
Success in Spr 2013, Fall 2013, Spr 2014 too
Source: San Jose State University Davidson College of Engineering
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4

25. 9 out of 10 MIT
undergrads
have used edX
on campus
Fall 2013: 3.091r - Solid State Chemistry
•Prof. Michael Cima experimented with online assessments with instant feedback
•MIT “The Tech” Nov 5, 2013. Freshman 5th week flag - 29 in 2012, 2 in 2013!
On campus use

26. Advancing Research
Expand
access to
quality
education
Advance
research
2
6
Improve on-
campus
education

27. Philip Guo (pg@edx.org)
How long should videos be?
Four edX math/science/CS courses in Fall 2012
Across MIT, Harvard, Berkeley courses
862 videos
5,265,833 watching sessions
2
7

28. Lots of replays
Video views
Video replays
Instructor dashboard

29. A/B Testing Allows Instructors to Improve Course
Group A: Text Lesson
Group B: Video Lesson
50%
50%
Common Intro
Common Assessment
Student event logs show
relative performance and
engagement of each
group.

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0
Imagining the Future of Higher Ed

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1
Why bundle university into 4 years, starting at age 18
Is the future of university unbundled, blended?

32. MIT MicroMasters
Modular Credential + Credit on Admission

33. October 13
MOOCs for college credit
First student gets
credit: October 2015
GFA announced:
April 2015
First course starts:
August 2015
Miguel, 40
Portugal
Earned
Credit

34. “The College Education Game Just Got Changed.”
“The only upfront cost will be $45 a course for an identity-verified
certificate. Altogether, eight courses and a year of credit will cost
less than $6,000.”
“The latest in a head-spinning series of technological innovations for
higher education since the emergence of MOOCs in 2011 and 2012.”
“One of most potentially disruptive initiatives in education.”
On the Global Freshman Academy from edX and ASU

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38. Learning and retention is related to
the depth of mental processing.
-Craik and Lockhart 1972
Anatomy of an edX Online Class – Active Learning

39. Blended Learning Pilot
Community College
Community College Students
scored an average of 10 points
higher than MOOC students on
the same exams
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9

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0
On being “replaced”: "My students would never got
through the course without our hands-on help and in-
class support and project work. The blended format really
allows for more personalized and project-based
instruction in-class."
Jaime L'Heureux
Asst. Professor, Bunker Hill Community College

41. Blended Berkeley Campus Experience
SPOC (small private online course)
Accommodate increased demand by 4X in SW Eng course
Autograders improve TA leverage, fulfill student request for more
practice, stronger design projects
Course ratings up
~800 instructors worldwide
passed MOOC; 8 now
using SPOC & book
45
75
115
165
5,8
5,7
6,3
6,4
6,1
5,8
4
4,5
5
5,5
6
6,5
Fall 09 Fall 10 Spr 12 Fall 12
0
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40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
200
Fall 09 Fall 10 Spr 12 Fall 12
Enrollment
Instructor Rating
Course Rating
Blended
introduced
Courtesy Armando Fox

42. Custom grading
Drag and drop
Embedded tools
Author supplies Python
script to return grade +
comment
Student drags components
to correct location
Embed HTML/JS or LTI tools
for rich interactions. edX
framework supports
persistent state and custom
grading
Richer Problem Types

43. External
graders
edXXQueue
service
Institution-supplied
external grading
server
Request next student
submission from edX
Receive submission +
grading payload
(expected solution)
Run tests, return
grade + relevant
diagnostics for student
Even Richer Problem Types

44. Peer Learning

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5

46. Group A content
Group B content
Simple, Graphical Authoring of A/B Tests

47. A/B Testing Allows Instructors to Improve Course
Group A: Text Lesson
Group B: Video Lesson
50%
50%
Common Intro
Common Assessment
Student event logs show
relative performance and
engagement of each
group.

48. Research Data – Learner Events on edX
* Not including data from first run of 6.002x

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9
Platform Velocity thru Community Contributions
Stanford: Adaptive hinting,
eCommerce, OLI integration
Google: Single sign on,
Instant Hangouts
Berkeley: Forums 2.0
MIT: Equations, many
problem types, CCX
Harvard: Annotation, edX-
Campus LMS Integration
Tsinghua: Intl. support
Edraak: Right to left
UQ: LTI

50. edX Mobile App
5
0
Analytics tracked even when disconnected

51. Students who were
able to press a
continue button to go
on to the next segment
performed better…
-Mayer 2003
J. Educational Computing Research
5
1
Self-Paced Learning