University College London’s Extended Learning Landscape

EMOOCs 2015 Experience Track

Matt Jenner // @mattjennerDistance Learning Facilitator, E-Learning Environments, UCL

UCL - London’s Global University

• Main site - Bloomsbury, London• 36,000 students• 16,000 undergraduate• 19,000 postgraduate

• 780 degrees / programmes of study• 200 undergraduate (BSc, BA)• 450 postgraduate taught (MSc, Ma)• 130 graduate research (Mphil, PhD etc)

• 11,000 staff (around 6,000 academic)• 11 Faculties

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Photo credit: UCL Moodle http://moode.ucl.ac.uk

UCLeXtend – https://extend.ucl.ac.uk

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Interesting things

happening!

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Reduces creating departmental course

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Contains search engine friendly

components (SEO)

Can contain a suite of courses

Advertise & promote a course

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Clearly displays important information

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Open to (potentially) anyone – just email

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Light-touch – not a job application!

Or no payment at all :)

Credit/debit card – instant access

Pay by invoice – slower access…

Sell seats in bulk and/or offer discounts

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It’s Moodle!

‘MyeXtend course list and progress/duration

markers

Transfer from UCL Moodle

Mobile/tablet friendly design

Simple design – removed anything

unnecessary

Courses by payment Courses by delivery

Courses by learningCourses by audience

Charged Free Blended Online

Closed Open Self-paced Cohort

Distance learning

Blended learning CPD Executive

Education

Short course MOOCs

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UCL’s Extended Learning Landscape

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Fully onlineBlended

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Alumni

Pre-enrolment

CPD

Recreational

Bespoke (for a client)

Taster Courses

Public engagement

Learning objects /

OERs

Executiveeducation

Communities (of practice or

proximity)

Widening participationResearch

dissemination

Conferences / exhibitions / showcases

MOOCs

Types of offering by mode of delivery NOW

Distance Learning

Fully onlineBlended

Face to face

Blended Learnin

g

Learning objects /

OERs

MOOCs

Types of offering by mode of delivery SOON

Bespoke (for a client)

Pre-enrolment

Widening participation

CPD

Executiveeducation

Public engagement

Taster Courses Recreational

Communities (of practice or

proximity)

Research dissemination

Alumni

Conferences / exhibitions / showcases

Legal• Learner

status• Copyright /

IPR• Accreditatio

n

Financial• Business models• Income

generation• Who pays?

Quality• Design • Build• Review

Challenges

1. Reputation

1.1 Encourage engagement

1.2 Targeting alumni

1.3 Outreach

1.4 Marketing gains

1.5 Media coverage

1.6 Modern approach

2. Capacity

2.1 Inform diversification strategies

2.2 Create new capabilities

2.3 Educational research

2.4 Enriched online resources

2.5 Interdisciplinary courses

2.6 Student recruitment

3. Delivery

3.1 International collaboration

3.2 Widening participation

3.3 Beyond traditional markets

3.4 Pioneering platforms

3.5 New sources of revenue

3.6 Translation of resources

4. Service improvement

4.1 Encouraging open education

4.2 Effective service disaggregation

4.3 Creating meaning from analytics

4.4 Pedagogical experimentation

4.5 Expanded media capacity

4.6 Copyright skills/knowledge

5. Student outcomes

5.1 Digital literacies

5.2 International experience/globalisation

5.3 International communities

5.4 Mixing internal & external cohorts

5.5 Accreditation and [micro] credentialing

5.6 Cross/co-curricular opportunities

Meanwhile…

Future…

UCL’s Connected Curriculum - http://www.ucl.ac.uk/teaching-learning/strategic_priorities/connected-curriculum

Questions?

Matt Jenner // @mattjennerDistance Learning Facilitator, E-Learning Environments, UCL