The MOOC Phenomenon:What Does it Mean for Business Schools?

Professor Jeremy B Williams

The Asia Pacific Management CentreGriffith University

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University of Technology Sydney

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1. The fear factor

Coming to a university near you …

The barbarians are at the gate

2. The scorn factor

3. The economic factor

4. The technology factor

March 2012

Could universities go the same

way as newspapers?

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Disruptive Innovation

“Things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you think they could”

Lawrence Summers

5. The pedagogy factor

Are these students learning? …

Enter the rock star professor

“The world of MOOCs is creating a competition that will force every professor to improve his or her pedagogy or face an online competitor … When outstanding becomes so easily available, average is over.”

Thomas L. Friedman

6. The business model factor

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7. The faculty factor

Virtual life is real life

21st century literacies … Develop proficiency and fluency with the tools of technology; Build intentional cross-cultural connections and relationships with

others so to pose and solve problems collaboratively and strengthen independent thought;

Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes;

Manage, analyze, and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information;

Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multimedia texts; Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex

environments.

http://edudemic.com/2013/04/important-21st-century-skills/

Instrinsic motivation

Personal Learning

Environment

Professional LearningNetwork

PersonalLearningNetwork

Segregating Professional and Personal Learning Networks may simply be a question of personal choice

Connectivism

Learning rests on diversity of opinions

… it is a process of connecting specialised nodes or information sources … … the capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known

communication of content

has become less important than the

network of communication

In the knowledge economy, content is not king. Rapid technological change requires

future-proof learning ...

… learning that lasts.

participatory pedagogy that fosters

authentic assessmentlearner centricity and

This new paradigm is a …

In conclusion …

Mainstream the

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