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The sense of MOOCs
for 21st century skills
Janine Kiers
FotoCCBYJanineKiers
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13-nu Product Manager MOOCs
00-03 Capacity Development, Philippines
Janine Kiers
04-12 Innovation in industry & education
97-00 Project Manager, DSM Biologics

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Today
• What are MOOCs
• To MOOC or not to MOOC
• Use in on-campus teaching
• Latest developments
… but let’s start with a question

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Foto: Ulrike Reinhard Learning Stations in Khajuraho, Rural India
“The number of higher
education students in
the world is expected to
quadruple,
from around 100
million in 2000
to 400 million in 2030”

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Goals
• Educate the world
• Enhance Quality of Education

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Open & Online Products
MOOCs Online
Courses
Open
CourseWare
Online
Blended Education
Campus

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Next Generation
Infrastructures 2
Drinking Water
Treatment
Functional
Programming
Delft Design
Approach
Technology for
Bioproducts
Solving Complex
Problems
Responsible
Innovation
Treatment of
Urban Sewage
Introduction to
Water & Climate
Introduction to
Solar Energy
Aeronautical
Engineering
Credit Risk
Management

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Latest products
Pre-University Calculus
Pre-university courses

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Professional Education
Latest products
Economics of Cybersecurity

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New MOOCs per 2015
Economics of Information Security
Physical Transport Phenomena
Circular Product Design
Low Cost MOOC production, + three MOOCs
Data Analysis: Take
it to the MAX()
Framing: Powerful
Political Messages
Topology in
condensed matter

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Lecture
• Filmpje Merle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV1zg3Bhvx8

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Challenge
• http://youtu.be/pyBlP1ltPrU?list=PLC4f0PmL-
Tdiujmfw7rhAZZyE00kyQCPM
http://youtu.be/pyBlP1ltPrU?list=PLC4f0PmL-Tdiujmfw7rhAZZyE00kyQCPM

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Animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWPB218va7g

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Platform: EdX
• Consortium of top universities
• Focus on improving campus education
• It is not-for-profit
• Focus is on Open
• Research for Educational Innovation

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Consortium
• Founders
• Contributors
• Members

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MASSIVE

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Open

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ONLINE
Education on
your smart
phone
By Victorgrigas (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 ]

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Course

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Course
How to activate 50.000 students?
It is a process. Ingredients:
• Video, book, handout
• Assignments, exams
• Feedback / Interaction
– Discussion Forum
– Feedback movies
– Community TA’s

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Assessment in MOOCs
definite answers
• Checkbox, Dropdown, Multiple choice
• Numerical Input, Text input (short text)
• Circuit builder, Drag and drop, Image mapped
input, Math expression input
• VOORBEELDEN!!

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• Numerical
Input:
• (Text input)
Assessment in MOOCs
definite answers

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Circuit
builder
Assessment in MOOCs
definite answers

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Image mapped
input
Assessment in MOOCs
definite answers

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Structural
Chemistry
Assessment in MOOCs
definite answers

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• Self Assessment
– Students assess themselves
• Peer Assessment
– Students assess each other
• AI Assessment:
– Machine grading – check 100 answers to define
the rubric
Assessment in MOOCs
open response

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Interaction in MOOCs
• Discussion Forum
– “Spark”, “Hot Topic”
– Assignments
– Questions from students
– Feedback movies
• World Map
• Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.

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• Cost- & labour intensive
• Only 5% finishes
• “Expensive form of
faculty development”
• The McDonaldisation of
education
(how to active today’s audience)
MOOCs - WHY?

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• Reach
• Research
• Residential

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Reach
Educate the world

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Reach
Marketing
• Applications for on-campus programmes:
1 per 1000 MOOC-participants
• % admitted is higher among MOOC-
participants than among other applicants
• MOOC-participants applying for other MSc
programmes than MOOC-topic not included
• Causality unclear: MOOC -> Delft or vice versa

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Research
Who are my students?

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Research
Who are my students?

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Research
Student behaviour
Weekly student interaction with course material

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Research
Students collect data
The potential of solar
energy (given in kWh
electricity cost x amount
of sunshine hours).
Light green is high
potential (best markets),
dark is less interesting,
gray is no reliable data.
The probability of
blackouts of the
electricity network
Light color is little
chance, black is more
likely

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Residential
Use MOOCs on-campus
Solar Energy
MOOC material is preparation for the more in depth
sessions with the teacher and lab experiments
Water Treatment
MOOC material partly replaces lectures, run on Blackboard
Solving Complex Problems
Reverse evolution: 1. On-campus, 2. Blended, 3. MOOC
Fundamentals of water treatment
Online course is follow up of the MOOC, for the best
students, on edge.edx & Bb

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Water & Climate
MOOC material used in on-campus course, run on Bb
Functional Programming
Finishing the MOOC required TU Delft course. More a split
classroom than a flipped classroom.
Aeronautical Engineering
MOOC material is optional, as extra course material for TU
Delft course. Unofficial blended course.
Credit Risk Management
MOOC will be a relevant part of the on-campus course, on
edX. Blended.
Residential
Use MOOCs on-campus

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Results of blended:
Passing rates

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Results of blended:
Average grades (6.5 to 7.1)

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Experiment: DAL MOOC

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The blue pill or the red pill

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Blue

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Red

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Research & Learning
• Learner agoraphobics
• Learner confusion
• Tools for interaction etc.
• Teacher presence required on forum
• Students responsible for their learning

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The sense of MOOCs
• Costs
• Benefits
“The worst that can happen is that we will have
improved our teaching”