MOOCS AND YOUR ORGANISATION

ONLINE & ELEARNING CONFERENCE 2015

MARY-ANN FIFE

MAY 2015

Overview

The MOOC Phenomenon

MOOCs at UCT

MOOCs and your organisation

Let’s unpack

M O O CMASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE

• Many thousand participants / learners

• Open enrollment and free access to course content

• All course material online

• Courses structured clear learning pathway/ set number of modules

Let’s unpack

M O O CMASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE

• Many thousand participants / learners

• Open enrollment and free access to course content

• All course material online

• Courses structured clear learning pathway/ set number of modules

Let’s unpack

M O O CMASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE

• Many thousand participants / learners

• Open enrollment and free access to course content

• All course material online

• Courses structured clear learning pathway/ set number of modules

Massive

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undergrads @ UCT

Let’s unpack

M O O CMASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE

• Many thousand participants / learners

• Open enrollment and free access to course content

• All course material online

• Courses structured clear learning pathway/ set number of modules

Kontizas Dimitrios

Ask the audience

MOOCs – a form of online learning

Downloadable educational digital content (ITunes U, YouTube, digital

textbooks)

Informal teaching and courses

(MOOCs, open courses, self-study

courses, Lynda.com)

Fully structured online courses with assessments and

qualifications

Online course DIFFERENCE MOOCFees Cost to user No fees

Maybe certificates &/or support

Yes, as per all formal courses Entrance requirements

None

Limited. Capped by resources available for support &

assessmentScale

Thousands Savings due to limited lecturer support

Responsible for curriculum alignment, QA, support

Lecturer role Limited individual support

Largely proprietary, some openCopyright

Content may be proprietary or open, user generated content often © MOOC provider

Distance education providersProviders

Traditional residential research universities partnered with private companies

No, not usually Analytics Yes, one of the promises

Conventional Certification Non conventional

Aligned with the usual formal courses QA processes

Quality assurance As per non formal offerings

MOOCs & online education

MOOCs have put online education on the map

They have legitimised distance education for

traditional universities (and traditional students)

They have put the quality of teaching in

universities under scrutiny

Valuable insights into how students learn online

David Blackwell

Medicine and the Arts

THIRTY

TIMES

the F2F course

UCT MOOCs at a glance

PAST CURRENT UPCOMING

• Medicine & the Arts

• What is a Mind?

• Clinical research

• Mitigating climate change

• Statistics• Social

Innovation• Inclusive

education

Prof Sandra Klopper – DVC Teaching and

Learning

UCT to offer MOOCs – full version (Prof. Klopper speaks at 00:49)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGL9nmXZf8s

UCT MOOC strategy aims to:

Positioning UCT as a world-class university

Show commitment to serving broader interests

of people regionally across Africa

To share learning and research beyond the

university

Show innovation in online teaching

Apply lessons learned to degree courses

FutureLearn Comments

UCT MOOC strategy aims to:

Positioning UCT as a world-class university

Promoting African scholarship and local content

To share learning and research beyond the

university

Show innovation in online teaching

Apply lessons learned to degree courses

M&A Presenters

UCT MOOC strategy aims to:

Positioning UCT as a world-class university

Promoting African scholarship and local content

To share learning and research beyond the

university

Show innovation in online teaching

Apply lessons learned to degree courses

Creative commons

UCT MOOC strategy aims to:

Positioning UCT as a world-class university

Promoting African scholarship and local content

To share learning and research beyond the

university

Show innovation in online teaching

Apply lessons learned to degree courses

Dr. Cheryl Brown – Senior lecturer and CCD team

lead

UCT to offer MOOCs – full version (Dr. Brown speaks at 02:24)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGL9nmXZf8s

Photo of M&A class

What is a Mind? Trailer

Link to trailer video for Mark Solms’ Course: What is a Mind?

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/what-is-a-mind

FutureLearn Weeks and Steps Week structure

Steps

FutureLearn and social learning

Some key challenges:

Low rates of uncapped broadband internet

access in South Africa and many other African

countries

Resource Constraints

Financial sustainability

Some key challenges:

Low rates of uncapped broadband internet

access in South Africa and many other African

countries

Resource Constraints

Financial sustainability

Some key challenges:

Low rates of uncapped broadband internet

access in South Africa and many other African

countries

Resource Constraints

Financial sustainability

2014 – The year of the corporate MOOCCorporate MOOCsAre you reading this carefully? If you are, I may as well entertain you with a joke. Jokes? Wait, I don’t know very many jokes. Hipster Ipsum will have to do.

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Yesterday’s NewsDON’T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ - Since 1802

About Siyavula EdTech company Provide open licensed content for school textbooks

Why they use MOOCS: Skillset gap No degree that teaches all the skills they require Existing MOOCs for all their needs MOOCs are free to access and already curated

Case study - Siyavula

Why it works: Action learning Personal commitment

How they use MOOCs An hour a day Group sessions Certificates for those who achieve > 66%

Case study – Siyavula continued…

Why they use MOOCs: Shortage of data science professionals Equip citizens with career-relevant skills

How they use MOOCs Pilot programme – August 2014 200 enrollments Meet-up groups once a week Co-funding for verified certificates

Case study – Singapore government

Johns Hopkins Specialisation

Source: https://www.coursera.org/specialization/jhudatascience/1?utm_medium=courseDescripTop

EMERGING MODELS FROM MOOCS

Open Boundary courseCourse offered simultaneously as a formal and as a open course.

SPOCSmall private online course

MOCMassive Online Course: formal course with “MOOC pedagogy”

Wrapped MOOCStudents in a course taking a MOOC with added local support and additional material

MOOCMassive Open Online Course

CourseFormal course with lectures and support.

Centre for Innovation in Learning and teaching

Types of workplace MOOCs

Build talent pipelines Onboard new employees Self-directed development Workplace and on-the-job training Train channel partners and customers Brand marketing Collaboration and innovationSource: Josh Bersin, Putting MOOCs To Work, Bersin by Deloitte. http://www.slideshare.net/jbersin.

Things to consider

• Digital literacy levels

• Internet access

• Suitability of content

• Staff profile

Test the waters

Ayacop

Class central

Source: https://www.class-central.com/search?q=eLearning

Pastern

Acknowledgements

Andrew Deacon Janet Small Sukaina Walji

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