Keynote address at Innovation in Tertiary Education Services 2014 conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 5th May 2014. Discusses how MOOCs are stimulating a climate of innovation and change in education online, shows case studies of innovative teaching formats in a range of Universities and Community Colleges. Argues that MOOCs are performing at plateau of stable expectations, and that their greatest impact is a set of invigorated conversations around cost, access, quality and delivery of education. Compares two interdisciplinary courses, one a blended/hybrid course at Harrisburg Community Colleges, and one offered later as a MOOC at UC Irvine, both using topic of Zombies as a vehicle. Concludes that MOOCs have unleashed an innovative set of approaches across HE (rather than being in them selves innovative). Schools focussed on classroom delivery have an opportunity to re-invent what they do. Elite institutions can use the MOOC as an intermediary format for delivering their content across multiple formats

1. MOOCs - how to live with them
and love them
STEPHEN HAGGARD
Auckland NZ, 6 May 2014, Innovation in Tertiary Education Summit
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2. MOOCs do change HE delivery...
….but not in the ways we were expecting

3. WHAT’S INNOVATIVE ABOUT MOOCS ?
massive
open
online
course
not significantly
innovative
a new kind of
conversation about
cost, access,
quality, delivery
significant
innovation

5. hype
cycle

6. Stanford Online - 2013 in review
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/vpol/vpol-files/2013_Report/Stanford_Online_2013_In_Review.pdf

7. 3 cost lessons from MOOCs
MOOC-type scalable pedagogies:
1. apparently reduce course price
(thanks, Marketing)
2. probably reduce course costs
(Georgia Tech $7K Masters or SJSU EdX ?)
3. definitely help us talk about value

8. Value problems
are toxic
students’ priorities for university
spending
Data:
Equifax/CCS
Higher Education Policy Inst

9. Cost becomes a defining feature
University of Pennsylvania / New Republic Daily
Sample: 35,000 MOOC students

10. 2 MOOC access lessons

11. Access is up for challenge
University of Pennsylvania / New Republic Daily. Sample: 35,000 MOOC students

12. 1 MOOC quality lesson
Quality is relative & is perceived clearly
throughout the system
Christian Guellerin, Directeur
L’Ecole de Design Nantes Atlantique
“ I have no chance of
putting together a better
MOOC than Stanford
and Tim Brown has done
on Design Thinking”

13. n MOOC delivery lessons
Online is the new normal
• Traditional delivery reduces success in STEM
• Univ Illinois Springfield 45% credit hours online
Florida is the future
• Senior HS mandatory 25% fully online courses
• FLVC catalog: “cross-institutional access to online teaching”
Delivery mode innovation is in
(no thanks to MOOCs)

14. Which innovative maths MOOC ?
 No-charge course materials and tools
 Mandatory peer review of all assignments
 Submit graphs online by google draw
 Instruction in youtube video
 Assessment by peer-reviewing comments

15. The Florida challenge
Minorities > 60%
Pell Grant recipients >50%
Vocational/technical qualifications >25%
Lowest tuition fees in State
Top 10% of State for passing and employment

16. MOOCs do change HE delivery...
….but not in the ways we were expecting

18. What do you do ?
● Watch video: lectures and clips of “The Walking Dead”
or cast interviews
● Read stuff
● Discuss in structured forums
● 10-question quiz
● Open course forum

19. What happened ?
65,000 enrollments
12,000 SURVEYS
90% new to MOOC
41% new to online learning
55% interested in other online
multidisciplinary courses
80% spent >1hr/week

20. http://www.instructure.com/downloads/twd-mooc-feedback.pdf

21. The original zombie course….
Gianluca Ramalho Misiti CC

22. Harrisburg Area Community College
75 students
3 terms
accelerated degree program
interdisciplinary course: psychology,
microbiology, philosophy, administration
Blended/hybrid pedagogy
Online news widget link to online lectures
itunes podcasts
chat, boards, panels, skypes, roleplay etc
Assessed - Blooms higher skills framework: essay, graded discussion, group task, exam,
project
Completion - 100%
Open - 8 lectures on itunes

23. bifurcation
high-touch
residential
low-touch
class delivery
● job readiness
● updating
● credentialling

24. Daniel McFarlane, Stanford
Organizational
Analysis MOOC
Three incarnations

25. Thank you
(OK, I didn’t cover MOOCs’
completion rates
business models
accreditation
quality problems
& copyright)
@stephendh