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MoOC Massive Open Online Course concept Universit Pierre et Marie Curie Yves Epelboin www.upmc.fr Directeur du SG TICE Yves.Epelboin@upmc.fr Y. Epelboin UPMC-Sorbonne Universits TERENA march 2013 Warning MOOCs are an
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Université Pierre et Marie Curie
MoOC Massive Open Online Course concept
Yves Epelboin Directeur du SG TICE Yves.Epelboin@upmc.fr
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Warning
2013 2/04 12:30
The contents of this presentation will be valid only until May be before!
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Context
US
come mid-April
– Pennsylvania U. – Drexel U. – Educause
MOOC A US vision: adaptable to Europe?
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A socio-economic view
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Some US facts
– To attract customers – To solve the pedagogical difficulties – An old home work dream
– 2002: Western Governors University www.wgu.edu – 2004: OCW MIT : ocw.mit.edu – Khan Academy : www.khanacademy.org
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The US university model
– Students = customers
– Local diploma, no state intervention – Profitability : few permanent staff (tenure) – Tuition pays for Research (non profit institutions) and for profit institutions(Phoenix)
– Same model with some State funding
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The economical crisis
– Over 10 000 $ in public universities – 40 000 – 60 000 $ private universities
debt: 1000 Milliards $
– Mean value 25 000 $ in 2012 (15 000 $ in 2004) – 40 Millions loans (20 Millions in 2004)
Source : Le Monde 23/03/2013
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Tuiton debt
– 20 millions in 2004, 40 millions in 2012
First debt before housing! Source : Le monde 23/03/2013
966 Millions US $
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Solutions
– 30% students only in primary study – Many partial workers (services on campus…) – A trend to drastically reduce staff expense (tenure)
MOOC
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MOOC
– Few interactions with teachers – Pure distance learning – Automatic tests and peers controls – Certification at the end
– Not for free
(90%)
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The main actors
www.edx.org
www.coursera.org
www.canvas.net
www.udacity.com
www.futurelearn.com
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An important investment
– Large number of students in one course – Designed for little follow-up – Collaborative and social tools – Automatic quizzes
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An important funding
100 000 – 600 000 $
design a course
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Business model ?
Yet to come The « generous model» Open Education : who is funding? The realistic model: call products, then on payment (see Open University UK) Industrial product in competition with classical study but at a lower price A means to increase HE productivity
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Already a model taking shape
– Option « Signature track » for certification (Coursera) – First grades to enter college (Arizona, Arkansas, Cincinnati…
for successful applicants…)
– Industrial business model at lower price
Education
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A new grading sytem
– 33 courses accepted as credits by renown universities such as Stanford, Penn, Princeton, Brown, Berkeley… – Move from the OCW concept towards a pay model – A paying certification revolving towards a paying graduation – Business model shared with the industry: Wiley
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… and now?
change »
17/12/2012
http://video.upmc.fr/differe.php?collec=S_edu_2025
20 companies who verify and accept the certificates of course completion »
Bennett, 5/07/2012
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Models for Europe?
– Mass and open? – Less expensive distance learning model?
– Centralized : HE European model? – Competition among consortiums?
– LMS – Support staff and teachers – Contents
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Some insight
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From OCW to x-MOOC and c- MOOC
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c-MOOC
– « All learners, all teachers »
– Bring your own resources – Web crawling more important than anything else
– Exchanges, social learning – Network and connections – Acquisition of knowledge
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c-MOOC
desire to exchange skills and expertise on a given subject in a collaborative and informal way»
MOOC guide http://moocguide.wikispaces.com
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c-MOOC : a course?
– It is a means to connect people – It is a means to collaborate
interested people meet.
brings his/her own work
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c-MOOC: a course?
forums, social spaces, tweets, tags…
Web
– To be independent – To work in their own space (community, language…) – To build his/her own community network for life long term
Dave Cormier
Island
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x-MOOC
– Videos = the theater – Documents = books
– Exchanges among participants (forums, social tools) – Crowd learning – Exchanges with teachers
– Quizzes
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A 21st century answer?
– Information is everywhere – Information is accessible from anyplace – Knowledge is distributed (Wikipedia…)
– Open to everybody – Participatory – Distributed – Based on a network of relations for all along the life education
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Flipped learning
– All participants – All learners – All teachers
– Delivering documents – Pedagogical support – Assessments …
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A young technology
Charles Severance, Indiana University
load
– Canvas : Ubuntu (Debian, MacOS?) – edX : Xblock, just released (MIT) – Class2go (Stanford) (Python, Django) – Coursebuilder (Google)(Django) – OpenMOOC (Spain)(Python, Django) – Sakai CLE (Apereo fundation, Java) – Claroline Connect (to come)
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Which MOOC?
tutoring
networks, portfolios, collaborative tools, forums…
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Other MOOCs: iTypa
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Other Mocos: Sakai CLE
– https://edulib.hec.ca/portal – Introduction au marketing november 2012 – > 3000 students
– http://mooc.uva.nl
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A cloud architecture
Load Balancing 1 n 2
…
DB User Data
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First returns
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A diversity of experiences
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Future?
Steve Kolowich Chronicle of Higher Education 18/03/2013
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A MOOC is not a course
Steve Kolowich Chronicle of Higher Education 18/03/2013
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Future again
See Dayly Free Press 22/03/2013
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2025 horizon?
– In the USA :
– In Europe :
See edu@2025 R. Katz, youTube
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MOOCs : a revolution?
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A revolution?
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An alternative?
But some industry leaders try to make believe that MOOCs are the alternative to the “King teacher” (Xavier Niel, Illiad & Free)
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Changes to come
– End of synchronism with the university timing – End of organization by ECTS – Certification or graduation?
– Bring a new public to the university
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Discussion
Yves.Epelboin@upmc.fr