This document discusses Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and how they can be used to enhance skills and careers. It defines MOOCs as online courses that are free, open to anyone with internet access, and have large enrollments of tens of thousands of students. The document outlines benefits of MOOCs like continuous learning at your own pace with rich course content from top universities. It provides examples of MOOC providers and popular courses in fields like IT, law, and finance. It also discusses challenges of MOOCs like low completion rates and issues with grading and engagement without in-person interaction.
3. What are MOOCS?
Massive
Open
Online
Course
Typically free and credit-less
Being offered by elite universities
through partnerships with MOOC
providers (such as Coursera)
Open to anyone with an Internet
connection
Very large and often have a student
enrollment so big (as many as
50,000 or more) that faculty cannot
respond to everyone individually
Designed to give students automatic
or peer-generated feedback
MOOCs are:
5. MOOC and learning
Why MOOC
For continuous learning
and improvements
To learn at your own
pace
Cost effective method
Rich course content,
from top global institutes
You can add new skills or
enhance existing one
Why learning
Learn or Perish
Need to remain prepared
for current job or for the
next job
Organization prefer
people opting continuous
learning
Adding skill is key,
having comfort zone is
dangerous
6. How MOOC helps
Organisation may be selective while sending
people for training
Organisation may have budget constraint
Organisation may not think you need
additional training
You may want to learn something, but budget
is constraint
You may be looking for job outside your
organisation, but you are outdated to hire and
cannot leave a “secured” job.
Crisis are sometime beyond anticipation- so
be prepared always.
7. Sample of MOOC Providers
Apple iTunesU
Canvas
Class2Go
Coursera
CourseSites
edX
Google Course-Builder
Khan Academy
Udacity
Udemy
8. MOOCs By-the-Numbers
As of Today:
Udacity had over 200,000 people
signed up for its courses
EDx:
EdX had 370,000 students
Coursera:
Coursera had reached more than
1.7 million students
9. MOOC Goals
MOOC Goals
1. Offer quality education to the most
remote corners of the world.
2. Help people further their careers.
3. Help people expand intellectual and
personal networks with strong
communities.
10. MOOC Benefits & Possibilities
Students can make global connections.
11. MOOC Benefits & Possibilities
MOOCs will have an
important impact in two
ways:
1. Importing teaching
(global reach of
instructors and topics).
2. Freedom to chose your
course at almost at nil cost
12. MOOC Benefits & Possibilities
The Innovative
University
Christensen and Eyring
Customize your
education
according to how
you learn best!
Without disrupting
traditional brick
and mortar schools!
13. MOOC Benefits & Possibilities
MOOCs could cut the large costs of higher education, which in the
US have increased by 360% above inflation since 1986.
14. In India
In India, we lack quality education and training.
Hardly handful institutes are worth in the quality
Distance as well as conventional education qualities
are not good, mostly outdated or costly
15. MOOC s regular conference/ training/ MDPs
It is almost impossible for anybody to learn in one
day conference
If not utilized/ practiced immediately, most of the
people forget what they have learnt – so there is no
RoI on money individual and organisation put
MOOCs are audio visual and participatory. It is a
collaborative learning too.
16. What kind of courses available in MOOCs?
Almost any course you want- from your personal
interest to courses related to your career.
17. Examples- Courses for IT
Software Defined Networking (Coursera)
In this course, you will learn about software defined networking and how
it is changing the way communications networks are managed,
maintained, and secured.
Mining Massive Datasets (Coursera)
This class teaches algorithms for extracting models and other
information from very large amounts of data. The emphasis is on
techniques that are efficient and that scale well.
There are 100 of such courses available
18. Example of MOOC courses for Legal
The Governance of Nonprofit Organizations
(Coursera)- State University of New York
ContractsX: From Trust to Promise to
Contract (edX)- from HarvardX
English Common Law: Structure and
Principles (Coursera)- University of London
19. For Finance
Financial Analysis of Entrepreneurial Ideas
(NovoEd)
Financial Engineering and Risk Management
Part I (Coursera)- Columbia University
International Finance (MRUniversity)
20. Others
How to Read Your Boss (and most of us fail
in this )- The University of Nottingham
How to Succeed at: Interviews (If you fail in
above ) (FutureLearn)- The University of
Sheffield
21.
22. How to enroll for an MOOC course?
Visit any of the following website:
http://mooc.org/
https://www.coursera.org/
https://www.udacity.com/
https://www.futurelearn.com/
There are other websites too. Go, search and register
for a programme you like
23. Questions
Are all of these programmes free- in most of the
cases yes, for few courses no. If you need a valid
University certificate, then you need to pay
Is there any timeline to complete the course- Yes, in
the most of the cases. Few courses are without time
limit to complete
Do I need to complete specific day of time?- No,
chose your own place, time and pace but complete
within the deadline
25. MOOC Challenges
Few typically stick through the duration of the class
Engaging students without overwhelming them
Student experiences and socializing are done
virtually and without real-world tangibility
Students must be responsible for their own learning
Credential models are still emerging
Grading is imperfect
Cheating is a reality
Completion rate is hardly 5%
26. The Future of MOOCs
MOOCs are here to stay and evolving rapidly.
Expectations and methods of presentation will
likely standardize over time, becoming more
consistent and predictable.
Large classes may be used as outreach tools.
Institutions may open their content to a wider
audience and extend their reach within the
community.
27. MOOC success stories
How Katie Leonard got a job through MOOC
http://moocs.com/index.php/mooc-stories-how-moocs-help-
individuals-succeed/
How McAfee changed to MOOC for training and did turn
around for its sales
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeannemeister/2013/08/13/how-
moocs-will-revolutionize-corporate-learning-development/
28. How to Succeed in MOOC
Do not opt too much courses, typically opt 1 or 2
course at a time
Participate in the discussion with other students,
that provides lot of insight and learning
Remain self disciplined
Decide what you want to learn and why
Complete Assignments and re-read them
29. Conclusion
MOOCs are good option as if you do not
prepare yourself for the next level, you
will perish
Any questions??
Hinweis der Redaktion
The acronym MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Courses
Who wouldn’t want to study from the top academicians from the world’s most reputed institute at their own convenience and most of the time it is free.
Sample of MOOC Providers
Here is a sample of some of the many for-profit and non-profit MOOC Providers offering courses today.
Coursera, Udacity and edX are currently the leading providers.
Apple iTunesU
A service hosted by Apple that allows instructors to manage, distribute, and control access to audio and video content for students within a college using Apple's iTunes Store infrastructure.
Canvas
Features a well-organized listing of all current classes and the institutions that offer them.
Is open-source, meaning that you can grab the code base for free and run it on your very own server.
Class2Go
Stanford’s Class2Go is also open-source.
Coursera
Elite universities are partnering with Coursera at a fast pace. It now offers over 100 courses from 33 of the postsecondary education schools, including Princeton, Brown, Columbia, and Duke.
Coursesites
In 2011, Blackboard launched CourseSites, a free version of its Blackboard Learn and Collaborate software that could handle user created MOOCs.
edX
MIT partnered with Harvard, and the MITx platform has evolved into edX.
Google Course-Builder
Google’s open-source Course-Builder project lets anyone make their own learning resources, complete with scheduled activities and lessons, if they've got some skill with HTML and JavaScript.
Khan Academy
Supplies a free online collection of more than 3,900 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube that cover a wide variety of subjects.
Udacity
Udacity is the outgrowth of free computer science classes offered in 2011 through Stanford University and was co-founded by noted educator Sebastian Thrun.
Udemy
Most courses on Udemy are free, but some are paid. Paid courses typically range in price from $5 - $250.
MOOC Statistics
more than 200,000 people have signed up for the courses offered through Udacity
EdX had 370,000 students in its fall courses
Coursera had reached more than 1.7 million students
Co-founder Dr. Andrew Ng says that it is growing “faster than facebook.”
MOOC Goals
Offer the best education possible to the most remote corners of the world.
Help people further their careers and gain needed job skills.
Help people expand their intellectual and personal networks with strong student communities. Learning can also happen incidentally through unknown knowledge that pops up as the course participants start to exchange notes. Some communities of students will even arrange face-to-face meetings to collaborate on a course.
Another benefit is that students can make global connections with their online peers. There have been amazing stories of students helping each other succeed even though they are on separate continents. Global networking is a plus for students and professionals alike.
Sir John Daniel claims that while MOOCs will have an important impact in two ways….Importing teaching and encouraging institutions to develop distinctive missions.
Authors Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring of the book, The Innovative University, agree that technology today allows us to customize our education according to learning styles – and that this can be done without harming traditional brick and mortar schools.
Could have a long-term effect of helping to cut the large costs of higher education, which in the US have increased by 360% above inflation since 1986. In India too, a good MDP (Management Development Programme) of 2-3 days costs almost 1 -1.5 lakhs.
MOOC Challenges
Few typically stick through the duration of the class.
Both MIT and Coursera have had to defend the large attrition rates in their courses. However, MIT noted that the number of students is so large that completion rates are comparable to the number that might take the course in 40 years.
Engaging students in a manner which does not overwhelm them.
Material should be organized in a way that guides students on how to take the course including Getting Started, working through the content, submitting assignments, participating in discussions, and completing assessments.
Student experiences and socializing are done virtually and without real-world tangibility.
This relates back to the basic conundrum of teaching online - How do we recreate the physical classroom experience?
The dynamic of a MOOC could make some students uneasy, particularly those who expect or thrive on a high level of contact with the instructor.
Students must be responsible for their own learning.
Participants need to be able to self-regulate their learning and possibly give themselves a learning goal to achieve.
Students can be ill-prepared for university-level work.
If anyone can sign up and take a course, there are bound to be students who enroll in courses outside of their skill level.
Credential models are also unproven.
Certificates, badges, some form of credit?
At Udacity, upon completing a course, students receive a certificate of completion indicating their level of achievement, signed by the instructors, at no cost.
Grading is imperfect.
Assignments that can’t be scored by an automated grader are pushing MOOC providers to get creative, especially in courses that involve writing and analysis.
Peer-grading is still very much a work-in-progress.
Classmates may lack a common knowledge base and educational background.
Cheating is a reality.
Coursera’s peer grading process has faced criticism due to instances of alleged plagiarism.
Udacity and edX now offer proctored exams.
The Future of MOOCs
The MOOC is an evolving model, presenting an intriguing set of challenges and opportunities for both instructors and students.
As it evolves, expectations and methods of presentation will likely crystallize, becoming more consistent and more predictable.
MOOCs with large enrollment may be used as outreach tools to boost future enrollment at an institution.
The scale on which these courses can be taught and the diversity of students they serve will offer institutions new territory to explore in opening their content to a wider audience and extending their reach into the community.