MOOCs — Massive Open Online Courses

My thoughts on the future of higher education [Christian]

On 03/25/2013, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, change, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, digital learning, education technology, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, face-to-face, future of higher education, game-changing environment, higher education, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, intelligent systems, intelligent tutoring, internet, learning agents, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, lifelong learning, machine-to-machine communications, marketplaces, mirroring and/or multiple devices, mobile learning, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, multi-touch, multimedia, Near Field Communication (NFC), new business models, new media literacies, online learning, online tutoring, pace of change, personalized/customized learning, smart/connected TV, social learning / networks, streams of content, ubiquitous learning, virtual tutoring, by Daniel Christian

Also, the PDF file of this article is here.

From DSC:
Though the title of this article I wrote says 10 years, it may be more or less (and given the pace of change, I would lean towards sooner rather than later).

If you haven’t read Christensen’s/Horn’s/Johnson’s work re: disruption — such as Disrupting Class and/or The Innovator’s Dilemma — it would be worth your time to do so. They are right on the mark. What they have been asserting is happening within higher education. The article briefly addresses face-to-face learning and hybrid learning as well. Readers of this blog will know that I have been pressing for higher ed to reinvent itself in order to stay relevant. There is danger in the status quo, especially when the conversation continues to move away from traditional higher education.

See other perspectives out at evoLLLution.com as well.

Tagged with: 21st century • 24x7x365 • change • dangers of the status quo • Daniel S. Christian • educational technology • engagement • etmooc • exchanges • face-to-face • future of higher education • hybrid learning • learning ecosystem • learning from the living [class] room • Lifelong learning • machine-to-machine communications • marketplaces • Mobile learning • MOOCs • online learning • reinvent • second screen apps • staying relevant

Traditional institutions will close, number of colleges and universities will rise (audio and transcript) — from evoLLLution.com (where LLL stands for lifelong learning) by Richard DeMillo | Director of the Center for 21st Century Universities, Georgia Institute of Technology

Excerpt (emphasis DSC):
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Well, for me, it always boils down to value. People misunderstand this as assigning value based on salaries or employability, but I mean value in the larger sense. You have to have a reason to ask students to pay more than the marginal costs of delivering education. And with all these revolutions in technology for course delivery, that marginal cost is going to zero very, very quickly [think journalism]. So, every institution that’s going to survive, I think, over the next 50 years, is going to have to make that case. Why is it that tuition at this institution is justified?

The interesting thing about this is it’s going to be accelerated because the old bureaucracies, the old institutional models… are crumbling. At least, their boundaries are crumbling. Let me tell you what I mean by that.

The accrediting agencies, which I think traditionally have had — at least for the last 120 years or so—an institutional focus, are now shifting their focus to students; to competencies, to demonstrations of what students know. And that really starts to cut against institutional entitlement.

I think the conclusion of all this is that, as it becomes harder and harder for… a “Me-Too Institution” to argue for a marginal increase in price, the amount of money that those institutions are going to have available to them to spend on anything but core mission for students is also going to go to zero. So, this is kind of a virtuous cycle; … institutions that are unable to make the value proposition will find themselves more and more strapped for discretionary funds in order to move themselves into a different space. And that’s an ending that’s not very good for most institutions.

From DSC:
How will our/your organization keep from becoming a commodity? What are we/you all going to bring to the table that’s different, unique, and worth paying for?

Also see:

Higher Education’s turn in the vortex of change — from evoLLLution.com by Karen Sibley | Dean of Continuing Education, Brown University
Excerpt:
Here’s the mind-bending question that prompts this thought:
What will brand value and marketing in higher education look like in 2023?
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MOOCS likely to be integrated into traditional university programming — from evoLLLution.com by Larry Cooperman | Director of OpenCourseWare, UC Irvine
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Traditional instructors will remain, but online learning heralds a new breed — from evoLLLution.com by Pepper Lynn Werner | Doctoral Student, University of Wyoming

Tagged with: 21st century • 24x7x365 • accreditation • budgetary • cost of getting an education • Daniel S. Christian • digital learning • disruption • etmooc • future of higher education • game-changing environment • higher education • journalism • Lifelong learning • MOOCs • new business models in he • online learning • reinvent • staying relevant • student-related • surviving

The professors who make the MOOCs [Kolowich]

On 03/19/2013, in business side of he, cost of getting a degree, education technology, emerging technologies, experimentation, faculty, future of higher education, global / globalization, higher education, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, new business models, online learning, by Daniel Christian

The professors who make the MOOCs — from The Chronicle by Steve Kolowich

Excerpt:

Like many professors at top-ranked institutions, Mr. Sedgewick was very skeptical about online education. But he was intrigued by the notion of bringing his small Princeton course on algorithms, which he had taught for five years, to a global audience. So after Princeton signed a deal with an upstart company called Coursera to offer MOOCs, he volunteered for the front lines.

Dave Chidley for The Chronicle

Tagged with: educational technology • etmooc • experimentation • faculty • future of higher education • game-changing environment • global • higher education • MOOCs • new business models

Items re: multi-screen media — eventually this trend/convergence enables “Learning from the Living [Class] Room”

On 03/15/2013, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, analytics, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, business, convergence, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, cost of getting a degree, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, Europe, game-changing environment, global / globalization, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, intelligent systems, intelligent tutoring, interactivity, internet, languages and translation, learning agents, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, learning preferences, machine-to-machine communications, media/film, mirroring and/or multiple devices, mobile learning, mobile technologies, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, multimedia, Near Field Communication (NFC), New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, new business models, new media literacies, online learning, online media, online tutoring, passions, personalized/customized learning, play, real-world assignments, second screen apps, smart/connected TV, social learning / networks, social media, society, storytelling, streams of content, student-related, technologies for your home, telepresence, television, training / L&D, transmedia, trends, ubiquitous learning, UK, using teams, vendors, videoconferencing, virtual field trips, virtual K-12 schools, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, virtual tutoring, vision/possibilities, web-based collaboration, webinars, by Daniel Christian

PayWizard launches first dedicated payment and subscriber management solution for TV and media industry — from PayWizard

Excerpt:

London, 21 February 2013 – PayWizard, specialists in payment and subscription management, has launched the TV and media industry’s first dedicated, end to end payment and subscription solution. The integrated solution brings together a strong heritage in the Pay-TV market with a deep understanding of the challenges TV operators and media companies face in monetising the multiplatform world.

Using its award-winning modular Payment and Subscription platform, PayWizard combines payment processing, intelligent subscriber management technology and real-time customer service operations to tailor-make solutions that enhance the consumer experience across all screens.

With 16.8 billion video-enabled devices set to be in the global marketplace by 2015, content owners are facing the challenge of enhancing existing services while creating compelling experiences that embrace new routes to market. PayWizard’s comprehensive set of products and services has enabled clients, such as the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster, ITV, to address these commercial challenges by enabling new monetisation strategies to drive revenue and profitability.

Also see:

Multi-screen – are we there yet? — from blog.adbglobal.com
Digital Home World Summit — London, UK — June 18-19, 2013

From DSC:
See the categories listed above for the items/topics/disciplines/trends that are relevant here.

Addendum:

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Massive Open Online Course offered by UMass Boston to feature the first adaptive MOOC technology
Enables students to be taught according to individual learning strategies

Excerpt from email:

(Boston, MA) – February 27, 2013 – If you’ve ever been in a course and struggled because you just aren’t “getting it,” the reason might be less your ability than the way in which the material is being presented.

New technology is now allowing online course environments to analyze how individual students learn, customizing instruction to individualized learning strategies. The College of Advancing and Professional Studies (CAPS) at the University of Massachusetts Boston has teamed up with USDLA 21st Century Sponsor, Synaptic Global Learning (SGL), to use the new learning management system, Adaptive Mobile Online Learning (AMOL), to deliver the first adaptive Massive Online Open Course (a-MOOC) ever offered. The course launches March 25.

Tagged with: A/V • AI • analytics • business • convergence • corporate / business world • Daniel S. Christian • etmooc • learning from the living [class] room • mirroring / multiple devices • new business models • second screen apps • trends • TV • UK • vendors

Reflections on “Hollywood meets higher ed” [Ripley]

On 03/13/2013, in creativity, Daniel S. Christian, digital learning, digital storytelling, disruption, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, media/film, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, multimedia, by Daniel Christian

From DSC:
Some reflections on “Hollywood meets higher ed“ — a thought-provoking post by Amanda Ripley

Excerpt:

But online classes are different than the in-person kind: Not only do they have a huge potential profit upside, given the ability to attract tens of thousands of students worldwide, but they are, at their best, performances. No one likes to say this out loud in academia, but it’s true: the most impactful MOOCs are also entertaining. The teacher does not need to be a singing, dancing, joke-telling maniac, but the teacher does need to be riveting, one way or another. The production quality needs to be high. Or the students will evaporate, clicking off to Facebook or Twitter or one of the many other online classes multiplying on the Internet.

From DSC:
I post this with a fair amount of hesitation, as mixing the words “higher ed” with Hollywood makes me very uneasy…but Amanda makes some good points in her posting and she highlights yet another potential disruption to the way things are:

Tagged with: creativity • Daniel S. Christian • digital learning • digital storytelling • disruption • etmooc • learning from the living [class] room • Media/film • MOOCs • multimedia

How long before we have an OVEE for communities of practice? [Christian]

On 03/13/2013, in 21st century, communities of practice, Daniel S. Christian, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, social learning / networks, by Daniel Christian

From DSC:
How long before we have an OVEE for communities of practice?

SXSW 2013: Social TV is here with OVEE

Also see:

The Living [Class] Room -- by Daniel Christian -- July 2012 -- a second device used in conjunction with a Smart/Connected TV

Tagged with: 21st century • communities of practice • Daniel S. Christian • etmooc • learning from the living [class] room • MOOCs • social learning • social networking

Let’s expand upon the idea of providing digital playlists. [Christian]

On 03/07/2013, in Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, Daniel S. Christian, digital learning, ideas, intelligent systems, intelligent tutoring, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, by Daniel Christian

From DSC:
Lynda.com, an excellent resource, now uses digital playlists.

Here’s an idea. How about, in the future, students will be able to run through a series of digital playlists:

Focusing on a particular topic and/or a course from:
- A particular college or university
- A consortium of colleges and universities
- A group of approved subject matter experts

If and when a person gets stumped — and the artificial intelligence has reached the end of its usefulness — provide a way for that student to connect with a TA, a professor, the subject matter expert, and/or with other students.

Tagged with: AI • consortiums • Daniel S. Christian • digital learning • etmooc • ideas • intelligent systems • intelligent tutoring • MOOCs • pooling resources

FAQs vs. Intelligent Virtual Assistants [nlinews.com]

On 03/07/2013, in Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, intelligent systems, intelligent tutoring, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, virtual tutoring, by Daniel Christian

FAQs vs. Intelligent Virtual Assistants — from nlinews.com

Excerpt:

When we know that 96% of people visit a website before they are willing to pick up the phone to resolve a query, it makes it even more important that they get the online help they need. But remember, satisfactory online customer service isn’t just about whether a correct answer was obtained but also the ease of the experience. The key to delivering great intuitive online customer service lies within your choice of an FAQ page or Intelligent Virtual Assistant.

This table shows you the capabilities of both systems, and I know which one I would go for…

From DSC:
Note the “Hand over to live agent” piece of that table…

#etmooc

Tagged with: AI • etmooc • intelligent systems • intelligent tutoring • MOOCs • virtual reality / worlds / learning • virtual tutoring

Emerging student patterns in MOOCs: A graphical view [Hill]

On 03/06/2013, in MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, by Daniel Christian

Emerging student patterns in MOOCs: A graphical view — from mfeldstein.com by Phil Hill

Tagged with: etmooc • MOOCs

The Professors’ Big Stage [Friedman]

On 03/06/2013, in budgets, business side of he, change, changing business models, cost of getting a degree, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, education technology, future of higher education, game-changing environment, higher education, liberal arts, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, by Daniel Christian

The Professors’ Big Stage — op-ed from the New York Times by Thomas Friedman

Excerpt:

I just spent the last two days at a great conference convened by M.I.T. and Harvard on “Online Learning and the Future of Residential Education” — a k a “How can colleges charge $50,000 a year if my kid can learn it all free from massive open online courses?”

Tagged with: change • cost of getting an education • dangers of the status quo • Daniel S. Christian • educational technology • etmooc • future of higher education • game-changing environment • higher education • liberal arts • MOOCs • new business models in he • Walmart of Education

Expert panel brings clarity to MOOCs in Business+MOOCs Hangout

On 03/05/2013, in change, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, game-changing environment, innovation, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, online learning, training / L&D, workplace, by Daniel Christian

Expert panel brings clarity to MOOCs in Business+MOOCs Hangout — fron onlinelearninginsights.wordpress.com

The Business+MOOC Panel
Host: Jay Cross
Educators: Dave Cormier, Stephen Downes, Terri Griffith and George Siemens
Business People: Jos Arets, Bert De Coutere, Lal Jones-Beyy (from Coursera) Mark Finnern, Jerry Michalski

Start at 10 mins into the recording.

Also see:

Business+MOOCs: the Hangout recording — start at 10 mins into the recording
NOTE: Jump ahead/start at 10 mins into the recording

From DSC:
Great to see folks from higher education and the corporate world collaborating here — this type of thing needs to occur more often.

Tagged with: change • corporate / business world • corporate training / universities • etmooc • game-changing environment • innovation • MOOCs • online learning • training • workplace

A history of media streaming and the future of connected TV [Zambelli]

On 03/01/2013, in Adobe, digital audio, digital learning, digital video, education technology, educational games / serious games, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, machine-to-machine communications, mirroring and/or multiple devices, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, smart/connected TV, transmedia, trends, UK, by Daniel Christian

A history of media streaming and the future of connected TV — from guardian.co.uk by Alex Zambelli
We’re close to broadly available HD streaming which could trigger mass adoption of connected TV.

internet streaming real shockwave flash netflix

A precursor to…

The Living [Class] Room -- by Daniel Christian -- July 2012 -- a second device used in conjunction with a Smart/Connected TV

Tagged with: Adobe • Daniel S. Christian • digital audio • digital learning • digital video • educational technology • etmooc • games • learning ecosystem • learning from the living [class] room • machine-to-machine communications • mirroring / multiple devices • MOOCs • Smart/Connected TV • transmedia • trends • UK

Reflections on “MOOCs and online learning: An interview with Jack Welch” [Glader]

On 02/28/2013, in corporate / business world, Daniel S. Christian, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, MBA, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, online learning, real-world assignments, by Daniel Christian

MOOCs and online learning: An interview with Jack Welch — from edudemic.com by Paul Glader

Excerpt:

WA – What do you think of this trend in Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs? Where is it going?

JW – Tom Friedman talked about it a few weeks ago (in the New York Times). It seems a little like the stigma associated with online learning, similar to online dating sites, is washing away. Every trend is going in that direction. We can give an MBA for $30,000 and you keep your job and are moving up in a company. Contrast that with leaving a job for two years and you lose $100,000 or whatever your salary is. You pay these exorbitant MBA costs for two years – $125,000. The economics are all going in the right direction for online education. It’s just as rigorous or more rigorous because you can’t just BS the classes. Everything is going in our direction. We can offer a rigorous MBA program while we make you a better leader. The theme of our school is we teach you on Tuesday and you put it into practice on Wednesday. In other MBA programs, you learn on Tuesday and, two years later, you put it to work.

From DSC:
I continue to wonder if and when corporate training and development programs/departments will shift their attention to two main things:

Helping employees build their own learning ecosystems — based upon each employee’s career goals, current/near-future positions, projects that they are working on, etc.
Creating MOOCs — and/or what MOOCs eventually morph into — for their own companies; then selecting the cream of the crop for an interview or an immediate job offer

Tagged with: corporate / business world • Daniel S. Christian • etmooc • learning ecosystem • learning from the living [class] room • MBA • MOOCs • online learning • real-world assignments

Beyond the buzz, where are MOOCs really going? [Horn & Christensen]

On 02/22/2013, in analytics, data related items, disruption, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, new business models, personalized/customized learning, by Daniel Christian

Beyond the buzz, where are MOOCs really going? — from wired.com by Michael Horn and Clayton Christensen

Excerpt:

MOOCs can be much more than marketing and edutainment. We believe they are likely to evolve into a “scale business”: one that relies on the technology and data backbone of the medium to optimize and individualize learning opportunities for millions of students.

This is very different than simply putting a video of a professor lecturing online.

Tagged with: analytics • customized learning • data mining • disruption • etmooc • experimentation • MOOCs • new business models in he • personalized learning

Briefing on MOOCs for the Board of Governors [Bates]

On 02/22/2013, in Canada, higher education, leadership, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, online learning, strategy, by Daniel Christian

Briefing on MOOCs for the Board of Governors — from Tony Bates

Tagged with: Canada • higher education • leadership • MOOCs • online learning • strategy

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The professors who make the MOOCs [Kolowich]

Reflections on “Hollywood meets higher ed” [Ripley]

Emerging student patterns in MOOCs: A graphical view [Hill]

The Professors’ Big Stage [Friedman]

Expert panel brings clarity to MOOCs in Business+MOOCs Hangout

A history of media streaming and the future of connected TV [Zambelli]

Reflections on “MOOCs and online learning: An interview with Jack Welch” [Glader]

Briefing on MOOCs for the Board of Governors [Bates]

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