By Pierre Dillenbourg (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL, Switzerland). Pierre Dillenbourg is academic director of EPFL’s Center for Digital Education and head of the Computer-Human Interaction for Learning & Instruction Lab. He is lead organizer of EPFL’s European MOOC Summit (6-7 June 2013; see slides below), and one of the world’s leading thinkers about the nature of MOOCs and learning analytics. He started his research on learning technologies in 1984, and conducts research on MOOCs, computer-supported collaborative learning & work, learning technologies, and human-computer interaction.

1. (1) MOOCs European Stakeholders Summit
(2) Lessons from EPFL MOOCs

2. ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE
FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE

3. (A) Graz University of Technology
(B) Université Catholique de Louvain
(B) Université Libre de Bruxelles
(CH) EPFL
(CH) ETHZ
(CH) IDIAP
(CH) IMD
(CH) Université de Genève
(D) Hasso-Plattner-Institut
(D) IWM-KMRC
(D) Ludwig Maximillians Universität
(D) Technische Universität Müchen
(DK) Danish Technical University
(F) CNRS
(F) Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon
(F) Ecole Normale Supérieure, Ulm
(F) INRIA
(F) Telecom Bretagne
(F) Université Pierre &Marie Curie
(F) Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
(FIN) Aalto University
(I) Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico
(IRE) Institute of Technology in Sligo
(NL) Open Universiteit
(NL) Technical University Delft
(NL) Technical University Eindhoven
(NL) Universiteit Leiden
(P) Nova University
(P) Universidade Alberta
(P) University of Porto
(PL) Poznan Supercomp- & Networking Center
(SP) UNED
(SP) Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
(SP) Universitat Politècnica de València
(UK) Edinburgh University
(UK) Open University
Universities & Research Institutes

4. Associations & Institutions

5. Corporate Actors

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8. Cambridge
EPFL
Oxford
ETHZ
Imperial Coll London
Univ Coll London
Univ Leuven
Karolinska Inst Stockholm
Univ Edinburgh
Weizmann Inst Sci
Univ Zurich
Hebrew Univ Jerusalem
Univ Geneva
Univ Helsinki
Univ Bristol
Univ Munich
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FP7 EU contributions (in milion EUR)
Leading European Universities: FP7 contributions vs ERC grants
Where are we ?

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ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE
FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE

12. Retention rates
65% show up
16% watch videos at Week 8
24’000 students

13. Why does EPFL engage in MOOCs?
Visibility: Enhance EPFL reputation
– Unique selling point MOOCs
Internal: Improving teaching
– Learning data analytics
– « Flipped » classrooms
Networks: collaboration opportunities
– RESCIF: education for French speaking Africa
– EuroTech: MOOCs for postgraduate education, with DTU, TUM, TU/e
Continued Education
– Potential source of revenue
Citizens
– Raising interest in the population

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14 online 7 online + 7 on campus 14 on campus no opinion
«In the future, I would prefer to take this course…. »
DataproducedbyHeatherMiller&MartinOdersky
MOOC ‘FRP SCALA’ (Odersky)
We got good news …

15. We do not decide who watch a MOOC
Data produced by Heather Miller & Martin Odersky
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17. What motivates students to enroll?
Median and range across 5 post-course surveys
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18. By Patrick Jermann

19. Data produced by Heather Miller & Martin Odersky
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UnitedStates
RussianFederation
UnitedKingdom
Germany
France
Poland
Ukraine
India
Spain
Switzerland
Canada
Sweden
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Brazil
Italy
Finland
Australia
Belgium
Argentina
Norway
China
CzechRepublic
Belarus
Afghanistan
Hungary
Romania
Austria
Israel
Ireland
Greece
Denmark
Mexico
Japan
Croatia
Portugal
Singapore
SouthAfrica
Turkey
Slovakia
Bulgaria
Estonia
NewZealand
Serbia
Korea,Republicof
Colombia
Philippines
Uruguay
Iran,IslamicRepublicof
Vietnam
Kazakstan
Taiwan,Provinceof
Chile
Lithuania
Pakistan
Slovenia
MOOC ‘FRP SCALA’ (Odersky)

20. In French
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21. assignments
videos, quizzes
http://www.chipestimate.com/blogs/IPInsider/?p=458
assignments
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MOOC ‘FRP SCALA’ (Odersky)

22. R = .51
R = .55

23. assignments
DataproducedbyHeatherMiller&MartinOdersky
MOOC ‘FRP SCALA’ (Odersky)

24. Exams ?

25. 1. Plagiarism is massive
2. Students fear a loss of contact
3. Flipped classes are difficult to set up
4. Managing both internal & external students
5. The workload frightens teachers
6. Students criticize data owned by platforms
We got problems …

31. MOOCS

36. Over-expectations are the worst friends
of learning technologies

37. Better be an actor than a spectator