This is a keynote I gave a the Sakai Mexico 2013 conference in Puebla, Mexico, April 24, 2013 - see also http://www.u-red.com.mx/sakaimexico2013/program.html

1. Massively Open Online Course
Experiences, Observations,Trends
Charles Severance
April 24, 2012
Sakai Mexico, Puebla, Mexico
https://www.coursera.org/course/insidetheinternet

2. During this talk, I am not speaking for the
University of Michigan, I am not speaking for
Blackboard, Inc., I am not speaking for the IMS
Global Learning Consortium, I am not Speaking
for the Apereo Foundation, and I am not
speaking for Coursera.
Frankly, no matter who pays me or pays my
travel, the only one I speak for is myself and my
goal is to improve teaching and learning
through technology regardless of what
technology those teachers and students choose
to use.

3. We are at the very beginning!
No one has *any* idea where this
is going!
Anyone who makes a "ground
truth" claim about MOOCs is
wrong!

4. 2012
1996

5. Nuthin' But Net
Internet:TCI

10. Why Now?
What is new or diffferent?

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002 = February 2013

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16. Location
http://www.dr-chuck.com/coursera/insidetheinternet/2012-001/maps/where.html
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17. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzNHvmSv8T
NewYork NY, Los Angeles CA,
Ann Arbor MI,Wilmington, NC,
Chicago IL,Washington, DC,
Memphis,TN, Seattle WA, Seoul,
Barcelona, London, Amsterdam

19. Race to the Tipping Point
• Coursera: 2.4 Million
• edX: 525,000
• Udemy: 500, 000
• Blackboard CourseSites: 500,000
• Udacity: 460,000
• A new MOOC provider pops up every week or so (it seems)

20. This is *Only* The Beginning!

24. https://online.dr-chuck.com/

28. All of my MOOC software
is also Open Source

29. https://p2pu.org/en/courses/175/python-for-informatics/

30. www.p2pu.org

31. www.coursesites.com

32. Dear Dr. Charles Severance!
I ask your permission to translate the course into
Russian:
https://online.dr-chuck.com/
It will be published in the National Open University
"INTUIT" (www.intuit.ru - in russian).
All links to your site and the requirements of
Copyright Creattive Commons Attribution 2.5 will be
met.
With respect,
Anftoli Shkred, rector of NOU "INTUIT"

33. We have not yet talked about
standards....

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38. Coursera API Roadmap*
• IMS Learning Tools Interoperability 1.1 to plug in external tools like
autograders or content systems from externally hosted systems
• In-browser widget using OAuth 2.0 and in browser provisioned APIs
• Dynamic question types HTML + JavaScript + Scala + Key,/Value per-
student store - all hosted in the Coursera Infrastructure
* I do not work for Coursera - this is just what I heard in a talk

39. edX API Roadmap*
• IMS Learning Tools Interoperability 1.1 to plug in external tools like
autograders or content systems from externally hosted systems
• In-browser widget using XBlock and in browser provisioned APIs -
already released open source
• Full edX will be released open source (Affero GPL) - June 1, 2013
* I do not work for edX

40. Next Generation LMS Systems
• Scalability and dynamic provisioning is the key
• Instead of one server(or servers) per campus we have one server per
course
• This is an $100 Million dollar rewrite from scratch - and a life/death
race
• Coursera is 30 engineers and edX is 20 Engineers

41. Some Questions....

42. Nature of
Innovation

43. Interesting Questions...
• What is wrong with this picture?
• How will this change higher education?
• How will teaching change? Invert the classroom?
• How will student's lives really change? Remedial education?

46. Summary...
Questions?
https://www.coursera.org/course/insidetheinternet