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Re-examining our assumptions: OCW in the Year of the MOOC

Re-examining our assumptions: OCW in the Year of the MOOC. Prepared for AROOC 2012 January 22, 2013 Bangkok, Thailand. Trends in Higher Education. 1. Massification 2. Revenue Enhancement 3. Globalization.

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Re-examining our assumptions: OCW in the Year of the MOOC

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  1. Re-examining our assumptions: OCW in the Year of the MOOC Prepared for AROOC 2012 January 22, 2013 Bangkok, Thailand

  2. Trends in Higher Education 1. Massification 2. Revenue Enhancement 3. Globalization

  3. THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM CANNOT ACCOMMODATE THE CURRENT QUANTITY OF STUDENTS SEEKING HIGHER EDUCATION

  4. Massification of Education “The need to respond to the demands of massification has caused the average qualification for academics in many countries to decline.” “Trends in Global Higher Education: Tracking an Academic Revolution,” UNESCO 2009 World Conference on Higher Education Altbach, Reisberg and Rumbley

  5. Distance educatioN is a partial response to massification

  6. Open and Distance Education Laboratory in Mozambique

  7. Higher Education and Distance Learning HE TRENDS Revenue Enhancement Globalization Massification DL Functions Cost reduction New markets Baseline instructional quality -> -> ->

  8. WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF THE UNIVERSITY?

  9. From Elite to Mass to Universal Higher Education

  10. Questions We Need to Answer If MOOCs succeeded initially without Creative Commons licensing, what is the value of reuse, remix, revise?

  11. Questions We Need to Answer If Distance Learning and OCW expand access to higher education courseware, who benefits? Who should benefit?

  12. Questions We Need to Answer What is our goal? Universal education to higher education? What about unemployed college graduates?

  13. Thank You Larry Cooperman Director, OpenCourseWare University of California, Irvine Affiliations Board of Directors, OpenCourseWare Consortium Board of Directors, African Virtual University Relevant sites and social media Website: http://ocw.uci.edu Email: ljcooper@uci.edu Twitter: @openeducator Blog: http://thefutureofhighered.com

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