Responding to Disruptive Forces-MOOCs and Their

Responding to Disruptive Forces: MOOCs and Their Consequences

Overview MOOC Basics The Origins of MOOC-fatigue Status of MOOC-hype MOOC Mysteries Do MOOCs have a place in California’s community colleges?

The Early Year(s)…

MOOC Massive Open

Online Course

MOOC Basics  Much of the grading is automated or is done by

peers, and predictive analytics are used to help students learn material .  Massive discussion boards allow students to ask

questions of their classmates.  Free?  “Standard” MOOC – not eligible for financial

aid, apportionment, credit (no regular effective contact).

Focus on “scale”

The Major Players Company

Coursera

EdX

Udacity

Credentials

Founded by Stanford CS faculty

Collaboration

Classes

190+ courses, in diverse subjects

15 courses currently, expanding in 2013-4

Connections

Stanford (sort of) Michigan, Princeton, Edinburgh

Harvard, MIT, Google, Cal, University of Stanford, Silicon Texas, and now Valley employers Stanford

Founded by between Harvard Stanford faculty and MIT and Google employees

15 classes, primarily in skills and computer science

What are the origins of MOOC-fatigue?

Headlines The Year of the MOOC Innovation forces higher ed's hand Massive free online teaching the next big thing in China Thousands Sign Up for UT-Austin's First EdX Courses

Can an international online course get you a job?: Massively Open Online Courses may help you land a job in the near future, predict educationists

Headlines Outsourcing Public Higher Ed (SB 520) MOOCs: The future of education or mere marketing? Public universities use MOOCs to steers students to traditional credit pathways/Mainstreaming MOOCs Earning college credit for MOOCs though prior learning assessment/Making It Count

SB 520 (Steinberg)  Proposes outside private vendor to provide on-line

the most in-demand courses that students have difficulty getting.  Intersegmental Committee of the Academic Senates

of California (ICAS) comprised of representatives from the UCs, CSUs, and CCCs are opposed.

Sacramento’s Interests “Efficiency”  End of waitlists (“access”)

Remediation for students

prior to enrollment

Status of MOOChype

Will it ever end?

MOOCs Near the Peak of Inflated Expectations?

Learning Vs Education Many universities now consider offering MOOCs, but they don’t do it for educational reasons. There is no intention to improve society, inclusion or retention, there is no quality consideration or recognition of achievement. It’s the latest marketing move, nothing more. …once we see MOOCs as a way to offering learning, but not as a system to provide education, these two can happily live together and be even a part of each other.

Remember These?

MOOC Mysteries How do you sustain a MOOC? Will MOOCs always be free? Are MOOCs inherently evil?

Do MOOCs have a place in the CCCs?

Some things to consider as we move on…  Do MOOCs call for additional rethinking of

expectations of teaching and learning - beyond current conversations?

 Today’s MOOCs offer:  Alternative delivery of instruction - noncredit

offerings to a mass, potentially world wide, audience.  Alternative approaches to instruction - a more modest faculty role, expanded reliance on students and peerto-peer grading and auto-grading.  Alternative evaluation of learning - use of data analytics. Alternative evaluation of learning - use of data analytics. Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA)

the NY Times--2 November 2012 http://tinyurl.com/moocCCC “Because anyone with an Internet connection can enroll, faculty can’t possibly respond to students individually. So the course design — how material is presented and the interactivity — counts for a lot. As do fellow students. Classmates may lean on one another in study groups organized in their towns, in online forums or, the prickly part, for grading work.”

So, What’s the Big Deal?  160,000+ students! In one class!

 Taught by Stanford, Michigan, Harvard, MIT

professors, many of the classes are advertised as being essentially the same as the courses offered at the major universities in the US

 There is no cost to enroll in a MOOC  The subjects vary from practical skills (accounting) to

advanced courses in medicine and everything in between.

MOOCs by the Numbers

Impact on the CCCs  Credit for MOOCs?  Certification in subject areas or

workforce?  Preparation for placement exams?  Bridge to more advanced courses?

 Other Opportunities?

Concerns about MOOCs?  Plagiarism  Lack of motivation

 Faculty primacy over curriculum  Reporting of competencies

 Authentication  Scalability

Going Forward--One CCC’s plan

How can we make MOOCs work for us?

Questions?