Hugh Davis gave a talk on April 23rd, 2013 about increasing collaboration through MOOCs and Futurelearn. He discussed what MOOCs are, the potential disruptive impact of technologies on higher education, and Southampton's motivations for developing MOOCs. Futurelearn was established as a not-for-profit partnership between UK universities to offer MOOCs. Davis outlined Futurelearn's structure and vision, as well as opportunities for collaboration within and across institutions through MOOCs.
How are MOOCs Disrupting the Educational Landscape? Hugh Davis
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are the latest disruption to traditional educational patterns. Instead of asking students to pay for the courses Universities are giving them away free. This implies that Universities are changing business models and some critics suggest that these new business models will be the death of traditional Universities. Furthermore, educational experts are criticising MOOCs for limited pedagogy and enormous drop-out rates. Many commentators suggest that MOOCs are now passing the peak of inflated expectations on the new technologies hype cycle, and will soon be history. This talk takes a more optimistic middle path, suggesting that Universities that are agile can go with the flow of the disruption (or avalanche?) to the educational benefit of their students, both on campus and at distance. MOOCs are encouraging teachers to take a fresh look at the benefits of blended learning activities, social learning and peer support. At the same time University administrations are revising their financial models for supporting learning and curriculum development. This talk will look at some of the latest trends in the way MOOCs are starting to change educational practice. The educational landscape is being disrupted, but maybe for the better.
The place for MOOCs in the changing Educational Landscape: BIBSYS March 2014Hugh Davis
There can be no doubt that Massive Open On-line Courses (MOOCs) have been the educational phenomenon of the last few years with large numbers of these web based courses attracting tens of thousands of registrations. But what is the business model for a university investing in making MOOCs and then making them freely available? This talk will examine the ways in which universities are benefiting from their investment and the ways in which MOOCs are affecting pedagogy and the composition of credit bearing courses both online and on campus.
These slides were used as part of a UK Round Table discussion for the BizMOOC project. They include some content written by members of the BizMOOC project team as well as summaries of the discussion around MOOC in the world of business.
2018-03-05 Keynote Quality Design Online Courses OpenEd Framework Mooc Survey...Christian M. Stracke
2018-03-05 Keynote at 1st International Media Literacy Conference in Kuala Lumpur on "Quality & Design of Online Courses: The OpenEd Framework & the Global MOOC Quality Survey" by Christian M. Stracke from the OUNL
How are MOOCs Disrupting the Educational Landscape? Hugh Davis
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are the latest disruption to traditional educational patterns. Instead of asking students to pay for the courses Universities are giving them away free. This implies that Universities are changing business models and some critics suggest that these new business models will be the death of traditional Universities. Furthermore, educational experts are criticising MOOCs for limited pedagogy and enormous drop-out rates. Many commentators suggest that MOOCs are now passing the peak of inflated expectations on the new technologies hype cycle, and will soon be history. This talk takes a more optimistic middle path, suggesting that Universities that are agile can go with the flow of the disruption (or avalanche?) to the educational benefit of their students, both on campus and at distance. MOOCs are encouraging teachers to take a fresh look at the benefits of blended learning activities, social learning and peer support. At the same time University administrations are revising their financial models for supporting learning and curriculum development. This talk will look at some of the latest trends in the way MOOCs are starting to change educational practice. The educational landscape is being disrupted, but maybe for the better.
The place for MOOCs in the changing Educational Landscape: BIBSYS March 2014Hugh Davis
There can be no doubt that Massive Open On-line Courses (MOOCs) have been the educational phenomenon of the last few years with large numbers of these web based courses attracting tens of thousands of registrations. But what is the business model for a university investing in making MOOCs and then making them freely available? This talk will examine the ways in which universities are benefiting from their investment and the ways in which MOOCs are affecting pedagogy and the composition of credit bearing courses both online and on campus.
These slides were used as part of a UK Round Table discussion for the BizMOOC project. They include some content written by members of the BizMOOC project team as well as summaries of the discussion around MOOC in the world of business.
2018-03-05 Keynote Quality Design Online Courses OpenEd Framework Mooc Survey...Christian M. Stracke
2018-03-05 Keynote at 1st International Media Literacy Conference in Kuala Lumpur on "Quality & Design of Online Courses: The OpenEd Framework & the Global MOOC Quality Survey" by Christian M. Stracke from the OUNL
Presentation shared by author at the 2016 EDEN Annual Conference "Re-Imagining Learning Environments" held on 14-17 June 2016, in Budapest, Hungary.
Find out more on #eden16 here: http://www.eden-online.org/2016_budapest/
Digital Transformation in Higher Education - The Changing Student RelationshipAndy Steer
Slide Deck delivered at SAP's Digital Transformation for Public Services event.
If you think that SAP and higher education is just about finance and HR then think again.
As SAP’s chosen Global Partner for higher education, itelligence are focused on bringing real innovation to your sector. From back office systems that save you time and money to consumer grade engagement platforms that drive student and staff recruitment, retention, and performance through to big data and analytic solutions that deliver actionable insight early to promote positive outcomes.
Bringing the best in SAP Consulting know-how and a range of services from implementation, training, support, and hosting, itelligence is the partner for tomorrow’s higher education institution.
Participative Design of qMOOCs with Deep Learning and 3d Virtual Immersive En...Dr Stylianos Mystakidis
Participative Design of qMOOCs with Deep Learning and 3d Virtual Immersive Environments: - The case of MOOCAgora
The recommendation of the Digital Agenda Assembly 2012 to address the development of suitable socio-technical skills and expertise through open education and MOOCs in order to decrease unemployment in Europe faces three challenges: a) increase MOOC quantity, b) speed-up MOOC delivery and c) improve MOOC quality. The paper argues that a crowd-sourced open education ecosystem, called MOOCAgora, can address the first two challenges by implementing an 8-stage MOOC for a realistic employment business circle. Furthermore the authors propose a new, quality-centered format of MOOCs, the qMOOC, in order to address challenge c, above, as well as qualification and web skills needs.
Presentation for a paper in the EU MOOC Workshop, EC TEL 2014 conference, Graz Sep 16th 2014
Df e rr355_-_opportunities_for_moo_cs_in_schools_finalIan Koxvold
We at Cairneagle recently wrote a research report for the DfE on the opportunities for MOOCs in compulsory age learning (secondary schools). It includes a potted history of MOOCs, analysis of their components, and an assessment of where and how they might best be deployed.
Practical Competences in a Changing World New Learning Technologies in Renewa...Manuel Castro
Our world is in continuous change, and inside the Engineering Education arena we saw those changes arising mainly in the last 10 years. Teaching methodologies are evolving such as remote and virtual laboratories, MOOCs and blended learning, among others like learning analytics, assessment and engagement, they will be analyzed and connected. Those activities and learning technologies are impacting Renewable Energies Engineering Education as part of the Engineering areas. The evolution of teaching through face-to-face, distance learning and now online learning will be linked to the increasing use of technology in teaching, analyzing the main critical factors in the EHEA as changes followed by other areas like Middle East and North Africa. This evolution is a key driving factor towards blended learning and jumping to open education (OCW and MOOCs) which are caused today by a change in the higher education paradigm pushed by the international crisis as well as the in-depth refurbishing of the public and private university roles in the different education steps and in life-long learning
Education and New Technologies - a Proposal from AUGE to the WorldManuel Castro
New professional student modular activities from CRECe New Technologies in Education area from AUGE / OCU collaborative work with UNED presented at the Edunine 2017 conference in Santos, Brazil
Seminar - Disruptive innovation, what if... - Maria SpiesLearningandTeaching
In this seminar, the concept of ‘disruptive innovation’ is explored by Maria Spies. Some predict that disruption is imminent in the global education sector and and talk covers current trends in global education, along with possible future ‘disrupted’ scenarios. What is the future if disruption occurs? How is our business placed in these scenarios? What can we do to plan for such scenarios?
Open learning in higher education an institutional approachBrian Murphy
The vaue of open learning can be a conflict within higher education instituions. This presentation is the result of an instituional review and research on the open education movement in higher education, given greater impetus by the advent of the MOOC. The journey of exploring MOOCs resulted, ironically, in an enhanced apreciation of OERs and revised strategic thinking of their impact for teaching and research, especially when viewed as a vehicle of co-creation between staff and students. Once value is attached, the principle becimes embedded and accepted rarher than an additional burden of academic endeavour; and the door is opened to the business case for systems, investment and development as well as academic development, support, reward and recognition.
Presentation shared by author at the 2016 EDEN Annual Conference "Re-Imagining Learning Environments" held on 14-17 June 2016, in Budapest, Hungary.
Find out more on #eden16 here: http://www.eden-online.org/2016_budapest/
Digital Transformation in Higher Education - The Changing Student RelationshipAndy Steer
Slide Deck delivered at SAP's Digital Transformation for Public Services event.
If you think that SAP and higher education is just about finance and HR then think again.
As SAP’s chosen Global Partner for higher education, itelligence are focused on bringing real innovation to your sector. From back office systems that save you time and money to consumer grade engagement platforms that drive student and staff recruitment, retention, and performance through to big data and analytic solutions that deliver actionable insight early to promote positive outcomes.
Bringing the best in SAP Consulting know-how and a range of services from implementation, training, support, and hosting, itelligence is the partner for tomorrow’s higher education institution.
Participative Design of qMOOCs with Deep Learning and 3d Virtual Immersive En...Dr Stylianos Mystakidis
Participative Design of qMOOCs with Deep Learning and 3d Virtual Immersive Environments: - The case of MOOCAgora
The recommendation of the Digital Agenda Assembly 2012 to address the development of suitable socio-technical skills and expertise through open education and MOOCs in order to decrease unemployment in Europe faces three challenges: a) increase MOOC quantity, b) speed-up MOOC delivery and c) improve MOOC quality. The paper argues that a crowd-sourced open education ecosystem, called MOOCAgora, can address the first two challenges by implementing an 8-stage MOOC for a realistic employment business circle. Furthermore the authors propose a new, quality-centered format of MOOCs, the qMOOC, in order to address challenge c, above, as well as qualification and web skills needs.
Presentation for a paper in the EU MOOC Workshop, EC TEL 2014 conference, Graz Sep 16th 2014
Df e rr355_-_opportunities_for_moo_cs_in_schools_finalIan Koxvold
We at Cairneagle recently wrote a research report for the DfE on the opportunities for MOOCs in compulsory age learning (secondary schools). It includes a potted history of MOOCs, analysis of their components, and an assessment of where and how they might best be deployed.
Practical Competences in a Changing World New Learning Technologies in Renewa...Manuel Castro
Our world is in continuous change, and inside the Engineering Education arena we saw those changes arising mainly in the last 10 years. Teaching methodologies are evolving such as remote and virtual laboratories, MOOCs and blended learning, among others like learning analytics, assessment and engagement, they will be analyzed and connected. Those activities and learning technologies are impacting Renewable Energies Engineering Education as part of the Engineering areas. The evolution of teaching through face-to-face, distance learning and now online learning will be linked to the increasing use of technology in teaching, analyzing the main critical factors in the EHEA as changes followed by other areas like Middle East and North Africa. This evolution is a key driving factor towards blended learning and jumping to open education (OCW and MOOCs) which are caused today by a change in the higher education paradigm pushed by the international crisis as well as the in-depth refurbishing of the public and private university roles in the different education steps and in life-long learning
Education and New Technologies - a Proposal from AUGE to the WorldManuel Castro
New professional student modular activities from CRECe New Technologies in Education area from AUGE / OCU collaborative work with UNED presented at the Edunine 2017 conference in Santos, Brazil
Seminar - Disruptive innovation, what if... - Maria SpiesLearningandTeaching
In this seminar, the concept of ‘disruptive innovation’ is explored by Maria Spies. Some predict that disruption is imminent in the global education sector and and talk covers current trends in global education, along with possible future ‘disrupted’ scenarios. What is the future if disruption occurs? How is our business placed in these scenarios? What can we do to plan for such scenarios?
Open learning in higher education an institutional approachBrian Murphy
The vaue of open learning can be a conflict within higher education instituions. This presentation is the result of an instituional review and research on the open education movement in higher education, given greater impetus by the advent of the MOOC. The journey of exploring MOOCs resulted, ironically, in an enhanced apreciation of OERs and revised strategic thinking of their impact for teaching and research, especially when viewed as a vehicle of co-creation between staff and students. Once value is attached, the principle becimes embedded and accepted rarher than an additional burden of academic endeavour; and the door is opened to the business case for systems, investment and development as well as academic development, support, reward and recognition.
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What is MOOC?
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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are courses provided over the Internet. They are provided free of charge to a large number of people and are accessed by the user logging into a website and signing up. MOOCs differ from traditional university studies, firstly by their open access. As a point of departure, participation merely requires an Internet connection. Secondly, MOOCs are characterized by scalability; the courses are organized so that they can easily be scaled in line with the number of participants.
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Abstract: As institutions are increasingly testing the boundaries of technology enhanced learning with emergent and exciting new online learning tools, the responsibility on HE institutions to mediate a level of rigor in this area also increases. One of the really interesting evolving trends is the prospect that institutions are not all doing this alone. And that as a higher education community there are opportunities to strategically partner with both other institutions and with vendors so that we do not all have to reinvent the same wheel over and over again. At the same time, we need to be very conscious of not prematurely throwing out the baby with the bath water and that too sudden a shift can create problems for our students that could be easily avoided. This presentation will look at a range of current practices being seen within the sector that stand as great examples of partnering around new: learning and teaching initiatives; quality practices; models of credentialing; technology mashups, and more. All of these are leading us to develop new models of practice in how we mediate our virtual learning environments (VLEs) of the future.
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Collaboration, MOOCs and Futurelearn
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Increasing Collaboration
through MOOCs
And working with Furturelearn
Hugh Davis:
23rd April 2013
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What are MOOCs
Disruptive Technologies: Is there an avalanche coming?
Why Southampton are doing this
Futurelearn
Collaboration within Futurelearn
Learning Resources in MOOCs
This Talk
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Massive - some have 10,000s registered.
Open = free, and anyone can register
Online although many have a parallel blended incarnation
Course (but not necessarily accredited for anything)
What is a MOOC?
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• Many short videos
• Some talking heads
• Some “worked examples”
• Some experiments etc.
• On-line papers etc.
• Discussion forums
• On-line activities
• Formative assessments
Assessment (and feedback) will need
to be
• Objective (multiple choice etc.)
• Peer review
• Self evaluation
Learning Design Workflow and
Learning Analytics are central
The emphasis must be on the
student as a self-motivated learner.
Most Courses consist of
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5. Why the
Avalanche Alert?
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Barber, M. Donnelly, K & Rizvi, S. (March 2013).
An Avalanche is Coming; Higher Education and the Revolution Ahead.
Institute for Public Policy Research.
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The cost of a degree is rising in
real terms while the value of a
degree is falling
Content is ubiquitous
(and free)
Private providers can produce
cheaper qualification routes
(or wish to be allowed to)
The world distribution of wealth
means that most potential
students cannot afford higher
education
It would not be possible to build
enough universities to educate
the emerging Chinese market
The classic university is educating
for 20th century skills
Employers attitudes to formal
qualifications are changing in favour
of demonstration of skills
The three of four year degree course
is no longer standard
Education is having its
Napster moment
Contract cheating
makes current
education meaningless
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We need to
maintain the
Goldstandard
The best possible education
is face to face with a true
subject expert
Students are looking for so
much more out of an
university than just formal
learning
Contract Cheating shows
that you need to examine
face to face
The hand-wringing citation of unemployment
statistics and rising student fees comes not
from the unemployed and poor, but from the
new education industry that wants to find a
way into the marketplace.
We are signing our own
death warrants
Have you looked at
the drop-out rates?
We’re under fifteen feet of pure
white snow
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Assessing Disruptive Technologies
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Joseph L. Bower and Clayton M. Christensen
Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave
Harvard Business Review 1995
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• to enhance reputation
• to boost recruitment
• ·to provide a public service
• to create more flexible routes for entry
• to explore new markets
• to support our collaborative provision
• to improve our on-line capability
• to help us to become more agile and flexible
Motivations for making MOOCs
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New Markets
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Informal
Learning
YouTube,
iTunesU
Non Formal
Learning
MOOCs
OERs
Formal
Learning
Modules
And
Programmes
Pulling Students through from the Informal to the Formal (Martin Bean)
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New Markets
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Informal
Learning
YouTube,
iTunesU
Non Formal
Learning
MOOCs
OERs
Formal
Learning
Modules
Formal
Learning
Whole
Programmes
Pulling Students through from the Informal to the Formal
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• Certifications
• Authentic assessments
• Human tutoring
• Corporate learning
• Sponsorship
• Access to student records
How do MOOCs make money?
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xMOOCs –
• Defined based on learning
outcomes
• Well defined journey through
learning
• Instructor led – “broadcast” mode
• Learning can be assessed and
certified
cMOOCs
• Based on educational theories of
connectivism – which hold that
knowledge resides in the network
and that learning is about making
connections. See:-
http://bit.ly/lyNmGX
Types of MOOCs
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Udacity, The first – “democratizing education” – but still for
profit. Started at Stanford.
Coursera – for profit (but business model only just
emerging). 2,000,000 people have taken a course, from the
catalogue of around 200. Only 7-9% complete.
EdX. Not for Profit. MIT, Harvard, Berkeley
Futurelearn. - Based in UK at OU, and aspiring to include
top 30-40 universities. For profit. Director is Simon Nelson –
responsible previously for BBC digital strategy
MOOC Providers
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(also mention some precedents such as OERs – MIT’s
OpenCourseWare and OU’s OpenLearn; also Khan Academy)
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Quality higher education, open to all, that combines learning
through doing and social interactions with world-class
storytelling from renowned institutions.
Futurelearn can be accessed any time and anywhere; it aggregates the
best online learning materials; it uses the presence of a massive number
of learners (and the data they produce) in innovative ways to improve
learning; it challenges and rewards learners and celebrates small steps of
progress and the big achievements.
Futurelearn Product Vision
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Stimulate innovation
among core campus based-delivery universities
Build brand
through provision of innovative education
Build international growth opportunity
HE exports in 2008/09 were £7.9bn22Enable partners to fulfill their missions,
widening access to UK HE
Maintain world-leading brand
of UK HE, which currently has 18 of
the top 100 universities
Build innovation
in UK HE
Attract additional students
particularly those outside the UK
Generate revenue
to diversify income
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MOOC Structure
Learning Unit1 Learning Unit2 Learning Unit3 Learning Unit4 Learning Unit5 Learning Unit6 Up to 10
Learning Unit1 Learning Unit2 Up to 3
Learning Unitn
Weekly Learning Units: , 2- 6 hours study time
Meaningful title, clear learning goals, end-of-unit assessment
1 2 3 Each with 2 or 3 self-contained Learning Blocks
Learning Block
Video Text Discuss Quiz
Learning Blocks
Sequence of elements
(This is just one example)
miniMOOCs have 2 or 3 Learning Units
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18. learner presented
with information
(eg multimedia educational
content from a high-profile
academic)
learner encouraged
to reflect on activities
(eg note-taking, annotation)
learners together
construct a shared
understanding
(eg shared wiki, Google docs)
learners engage in
discussion or
argument
(eg discussion forum)
learners interact
across time and
space
(eg social-network tools such
as Twitter, Facebook)
learner seeks and
collates information
(eg search engines, web
browsers)
learning through
receiving formative
feedback
(eg multiple-choice quizzes to
self-assess performance;
criterion based assessment,
repeating an online assessment
until reaching a desired level of
performance)
Each style presents
opportunities for
learning apps
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Social Constructivist learning approach
Based on small on-the-fly groups
Students remain in those groups for that
activity
Lots of ideas for patterns of social learning
Patterns for Social Learning
Post University cartoon/Dave Blazek, licensed under
a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0
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There are some issues: who gets to do Business
101?
But the answer is in differentiation
Southampton intends to offer
Web Science and Oceanography
based MOOCs in its first offerings..
Collaboration within Futurelearn
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Managing Tensions
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Potential for excellent analytics
research
Concern for data ownership and
institutional confidentiality
Ensuring Futurelearn
Quality
Keeping Institutional control
Certification
Credit bearing
assessment
Vs
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OERs are allowed
But high quality is required
We need resources that can be accessed by
anyone – not just registered students…
Learning Resources in MOOCs
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Who owns the work?
The text book?
What happens if the
expert goes?
MOOCs will force us to
sort out these issues if
not already
Ownership of Materials developed
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Groups internal to the University: CITE – academics – librarians
Academic disciplines within the University – Humanities and Maritime
archaeology?
Groups across institutions – Oceanography at Southampton and OU
Librarians at OU, Southampton and elsewhere
Partners of FutureLearn – Universities within and beyond Russell Group
Universities and other organisations within FutureLearn – BL and British
Council and Southampton
Multiple opportunities for increasing collaboration in MOOCs
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