small mooc

LMSasaMOOC:Analternative to face current

MOOC’s challenges

LaunchCS50X(Harvard)

Course

180.000registrations

Endofthecourse

Lessthan1%completedthecourse

NewYorkTimes

2012“TheyearoftheMOOC”

The WashingtonPost

2013“AreMOOCreallyover?”

What hashappenedto the MOOC?

Currently,MOOCs arefacing some challenges…

35%

56%

4%5%

Didnotpastregistration

Lessthanhalfofthecourse

Morethanhalfofthecoursebutdidnotcompleteit

Earnedcertificate

Thisdata,takenfromthefirst6Harvardand11MITcourses(2012-2013),showsthat…

Only5%oftheregistereduserscompletedthecourseandreceivedcertificate.

Source: http://harvardmagazine.com/2015/07/is-small-beautiful

30millionUSD

edX16millionUSD

Coursera

Revenue andSustainability

“How these programs will sustain themselves is abig inquiry”

SOURCE:http://www.universitybusiness.com/article/spocs-may-provide-what-moocs-can%E2%80%99t

MOOCs

LowCompletion

Rates

Technicaldifficulties

Not bigdiversity

Budget

“The biggest success for onlinecourses andtheir greatestproblem arethe same”

SOURCE:http://www.bbc.com/news/business-24166247

SOURCE:http://www.edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2013/03/dark-side-mooc-do-challenges-outweigh-advantages

…but for every challenge,there is an alternative

HarvardX “Scalingdown,not up” SmallMOOC

SPOC(SmallPrivateOnlineCourse)

SOOC(SelectiveOpenOnlineCourses)

Low levels ofactive

participation

Low retentionrates

Variablestudent

backgrounds

“Smallis beautiful”

Distributingcomputingthroughcloud

services

Torrent

GITSETI@home

•Servers•Operationalcosts

SavingExpenses

“When you aredown,lookatthe sky”

“You cancreateyour own MOOCwith an LMS”

SPOC

LMS

Sharing Course

MOOC

LMS1 LMS2 LMS3 LMS4

SPOC SPOC SPOC SPOC

OCW

LMS

Sharing Clips

OCWs

LMS1 LMS2 LMS3 LMS4

OCW OCW OCW OCW

LMS

Efficiency

Hugenumbers Budget

Alternative

SMOOC

Concept

Computingdistributing

Methodology

MOOCCURRENTCHALLENGE

LMS

Onemorething…