MOOCs in the world.

An overview

Agenda

ICT and learning

MOOCs: An international overview

MOOCs in Italy

Recent trends

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ICT and learning

ICT-based developments affect learning:

Where and When: off-campus courses, learning at a time and pace of

learners’ choosing

Online learning (E-learning)

Blended/Hybrid learning (supplement to traditional teaching)

Open Educational Resources (OER)

MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)

Howwe learn: identify the issues that students struggle with and how

learning outcomes can be improved

Adaptive learning

Big Data

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Source: Fevolden and Tomte (2015)

MOOC: acronym

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Massive: large number of students

Open: stands for the gratuity and the availability of the courses

Online: MOOCs’ fundamental characteristic

The difference between the traditional courses and online MOOCs is represented

by the strong interaction between students, thus creating a two-way teaching

This gives also the opportunity to generate new set of data that are used in order

to improve the delivery of teaching (i.e. learning analytics)

Course: conversion of the classic teacher-student role. The teacher is no longer

seen as a leader, but a guide within the course. This new concept allows to better

take out the interaction between parties

(Huan, 2015)

Growth of MOOCs

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Source: Class Central, By the numbers: MOOCs in 2017

# registered students and market share by provider

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37.0% 17.3% 11.5% 11.1% 8.8%

Source: Class Central, By the numbers: MOOCs in 2017

MOOCs distribution by subject

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Source: Class Central, By the numbers: MOOCs in 2017

COURSERA

Founded by two Stanford Computer

Science professors in 2012

25 million learners

149 University partners worldwide

2,000+ courses

180+ specializations

4 degree programs

Priced at about $29-$99 USD to

earn course certificate

EDX

Founded by Harvard University and MIT

in 2012

14 million+ learners

130+ institutional partners worldwide

1,900+ courses

For a verified certificate, fees range

between $50-$300 USD

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MOOCs in the US: the biggest global providers

Source: Providers’ website

See also: Canvas Network, Udacity, Academic Earth, Khan Academy

National providers

XuetangX

World’s first Chinese MOOC

platform

Founded in 2013 by Tsinghua

University (Beijing)

11 million users

1,400 courses

500+ partners across the world

20 million enrollments

Kaikeba, TopU.com, …

Global providers (ex. Coursera

and Edx)

Ex. University of Peking, Shanghai

Jiao Tong University, Nanjing

University

Ex. In 2013, Coursera zone was

launched: a Chinese-language

portal to Coursera hosted on

NetEase’s popular open education

website

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MOOCs in China

Source: Providers’ website

OpenupED

Pan-European MOOC initiative launched

in April 2013

Founding partners:

EADTU (European Association of

Distance Teaching Universities) in

collaboration with the European

Commission

European MOOC consortium

(EMC) Launched during the Online, Open and

Flexible Higher Education Conference

2017

Founding partners:

FutureLearn (UK)

France Université Numérique (France)

OpenupED (Europe)

Miríada X (Spain)

EduOpen (Italy)

Offering together almost a 1,000 MOOCs

Large network of 250 higher education

institutions

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MOOCs in Europe

Source: Providers’ website

National provider

FutureLearn

Launched in 2013 by the Open

University

143 Higher Education institutions

all around the world

8 million subscribers

The majority of courses are free to

join and study. Fees to earn a

course certificate

Global providers (ex.

Coursera and Edx)

Ex. University of Oxford,

University of London, Imperial

College London, University of

Manchester, University of

Edinburgh, …

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MOOCs in UK

Source: Providers’ website

National providers: Iversity

Founded in 2011 by two students

Launched its first MOOC in 2013

Offers 60 courses in collaboration with

Universities, companies and NGOs

Academic and non academic partners all

over Europe

Over 750,000 users

6 languages

Open Hpi, OpenCourseWorld,

Mooin,…

Kiron (focus on access to HE for refugees)

Global providers (ex. Coursera

and Edx)

Ex. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität

München, Technische Universität

München

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MOOCs in Germany

Source: Providers’ website

National provider

France Université Numérique

Launched in 2013 by the Minister

of Higher Education and Research

50 Higher Education institutions in

France and abroad

1 million subscribers

150 courses

Courses in French and English

Payment for certification

Global providers (ex. Coursera

and Edx)

Ex. Sorbonne Université, HEC Paris,

Sciences Po, École Normal

Supérieure, École Polytechnique, …

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MOOCs in France

Source: Providers’ website

MOOCs in Italy: from global to local providers

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Global providers(ex. Coursera,

EdX)European providers

(ex. OpenupEnd)

National providers (ex. OpenEdu)

Single-Universityplatforms

(ex. PoliMI)

Global Providers

Coursera

Ex. Sapienza University of Rome,

Bocconi University, Technical

University of Milan

EdX

Ex. University of Naples

Federico II

European providers

OpenupED

Ex. International Telematic

University UNINETTUNO

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MOOCs in Italy (1/2)

Source: Providers’ website

National Provider

EduOpen

Since April 2016

A MIUR-funded project

35,245 learners

155 courses

19 pathways

Supported by Moodle

17 partner Universities

Single-University providers

Ex. Polimi Open Knowledge

(MOOC programme of Technical

University of Milan), Federica

(University of Napoli Federico II)

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MOOCs in Italy (2/2)

Source: Providers’ website

MOOCs: Recent trends

Shift in priorities towards users who are willing to pay

MOOCs are losing their Open feature

¾ MOOCs learners hold a degree:

Key role in Life Long Learning within the changing job landscape

Most popular courses in 2017:

Artificial intelligence, bitcoin, programming, English, and learning skills

(Coursera)

English, Data Analysis, science of happiness, artificial intelligence,

cybersecurity, robotics, programming, architecture, Spanish (EdX)

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Case-study: HarvardX

HarvardX is a University-wide strategic initiative to enable

faculty to build and create open online learning experiences

for residential and online use, and to enable groundbreaking

research in online pedagogies

Launched in parallel with EdX, HarvardX is fully

independent

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HarvardX Learner Community

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HarvardX Learner Community

Massive Diverse Global

6.59 million of registrations 318,692 learners who are full-

time working professionals 67% learners outside the US

30,349 unique learners per course34% learners who self-identify

teachers/instructors 193 countries represented

130,194 certificates earned 73% learners who are Millenials1.15 million learners in UN

Developing Nations

Learning @ HarvardX

Activity Time Course

1.20 billion clicks 11.8 millions learner hours 172 course offerings

81.8 millions problem attempted1.80 millions learner hours spent

on problems34 courses in humanities, history,

religion, design and education

Source: Provider’s website

HarvardX Learners by countryRank Country

Estimated number of registred students

Share

1 United States 884,510 33.0%2 India 223,072 8.3%3 Regno Unito 117,376 4.4%4 Canada 106,482 4.0%5 Brazil 101,314 3.8%6 China 63,719 2.4%7 Australia 58,270 2.2%8 Germany 54,117 2.0%9 Spain 47,868 1.8%

10 Mexico 45,430 1.7%11 France 40,031 1.5%

12 Russia 33,496 1.2%13 Egypt 28,466 1.1%14 Colombia 28,401 1.1%15 Japan 25,910 1.0%16 Pakistan 25,582 1.0%

17 Ukraine 23,760 0.9%18 Polonia 23,027 0.9%19 Italy 22,889 0.9%20 Nigeria 22,639 0.8%21 Indonesia 17,690 0.7%22 Vietnam 15,650 0.6%23 Portugal 15,043 0.6%

World 2,681,656 100.0%

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Source: Provider’s website