PowerPoint Presentation: Presented at the 10 th Annual Innovations in Online Learning Conference San Antonio, TX May 22, 2014 Judith Sebesta, Ph.D.
PowerPoint Presentation: "Nothing has more potential to lift more people out of poverty — by providing them an affordable education to get a job or improve in the job they have" --Thomas Friedman, New York Times (January 26, 2013).
PowerPoint Presentation: Completion rate data on 26 of the MOOCs that have been offered by Coursera , EDx and Udacity
PowerPoint Presentation: “History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education” Coursera Platform Instructor: Dr. Cathy Davidson, Duke University Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory 12,000 Students
PowerPoint Presentation: “Ethical Reasoning: Justice” EdX Platform Instructor: Dr. Michael Sandel , Harvard University
Duke vs. Harvard : Duke vs. Harvard Duke “Talking Head” Lectures Set up as tangent to a f2f/networked (w/ UC Santa Barbara and Stanford) graduate course Periodic Quizzes easy to “game” Diversity of (optional) assignments, including peer-reviewed writings Discussion Forum Meet up Groups, Research and Publicity re: course Harvard Lectures in Classroom with Students Set up as MOOC version of f2f course Difficult quizzes with pre-self tests; final exam 75% of grade Poll questions Discussion Forum for points
PowerPoint Presentation: Benefits Diversity of Participants New knowledge taught by e xperts in the field Convenience
PowerPoint Presentation: Challenges Overwhelming! Quality of contributions by participants Lack of incentives for completion No connection to instructor
PowerPoint Presentation: College works “…by bringing students together with the right people at the right time .” --Daniel F. Chambliss and Christopher G. Takacs in How College Works