Time Passes As Books Get Written

1. The Current State of Massively Open Online Coursesknown asMOOCson the occasion of Prof. Ira Pohl’s 40th Yearat UC Santa Cruz

2. Time Passes As Books Get Written

3. A MOOC is an online course allowing unlimited participation and open access via the webMany questions arise What is massive? 1,000 10,000 100,000 Self-Paced? MOOC MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE OPEN REGISTRATION? College credit Learning Community? Real-time Interaction Scripted assessments and feedback? Open content? Free of charge? Affordable?

4. The Class That Started It All

5. Kahn Academy • Khan Academy is a non-profit educational website created in 2006 by Salman Khan; it began as an effort to tutor his teenage cousin; its mission now is to provide "a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere”.

6. Kahn Academy SampleRaising Complex i to Higher Powers

7. Udacity, Coursera, edX • The success of the initial course caused a series of entrepreneurial activity creating companies to tap into the perceived market for online education • Sebastian Thrun (Stanford) started Udacity • Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller (Stanford Computer Science faculty) founded Coursera • MIT created a non-profit called edX and was soon joined by Harvard • Others . . .

8. Content is Growing at a Rapid Rate* • EdX currently offers 94 courses from 29 institutions around the world (as of November 2013). • Coursera currently offers 325 courses • 30% in the sciences, • 28% in arts and humanities, • 23% in information technology, • 13% in business and • 6% in mathematics • Udacity currently offers 26 courses • Udacity's CS101, with an enrollment of over 300,000 students, was the largest MOOC to date • *As of Jan., 2014

9. The Hype is In Dennis Yang, President of MOOC provider Udemy has suggested that MOOCs are in the midst of a hype cycle, with expectations undergoing a wild swing

10. A Sample Course6/00.1 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python Instructor: Eric Grimson, MIT https://www.edx.org/course/mitx/mitx-6-00-1x-introduction-computer-1122#.UzT1HvldV8E

12. A Sample Python Lecture Given By Chancellor of MIT – Prof. Eric Grimson“Capturing Computation As A Function”

13. Multiple Features Support Student Learning In addition to the video lectures the website offers an array of supporting features including Calendar, Wiki, Discussion, Progress, Textbook. History panel provides links to all lectures Subtitles appear as the instructor lectures Download Download Download Transcript Video Slides

14. Things Don’t Always Go SmoothlyExcerpts From the MIT/Python Discussion Forum • October 16, 2013 Welcome to the first offering of 6.00.1x, Fall 2013! At this time, you can access courseware (including videos, problems, and a Progress tab to track your grade). There is a discussion board - accessible 24 hours a day • October 25, 2013: EDIT: Point 5 small change. UnboundLocalError: local variable 'a' referenced before assignment changed to UnboundLocalError: local variable 'c' referenced before assignment. • Nov 11, 5:30pm UTC. THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH THE edX SERVERS. • Nov 11, 10:30pm UTC. THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH THE GRADERS AGAIN • Nov 12, 1:40pm UTC. The grader issue is resolved now. You can submit your code • December 2, 2013 8pm UTC. Graders are working now; 2pm UTC: Graders are down. EdX has been notified but today is a national holiday • UTC, Coordinated Universal Time, Time zones today are a certain number of hours or hours and minutes behind or ahead of UTC

15. Georgia Tech Computer Science Online Masters Program • Is now offering a MOOC-based • online master’s degree in • computer science for $6,600 — • far less than the $45,000 • on-campus price • Georgia Tech will provide the • content and professors and get • 60 percent of the revenue while • Udacity will provide the computer • platform, course assistants and • receive the other 40 percent. • The projected budget for the test run • is $3.1 million — including $2 million • donated by AT&T, • By the third year, the projection is for • $14.3 million in costs and $4.7 million • in profits

16. Who Does What in a MOOC • Major Points of the Study 1. MOOCs offer a unique opportunity to study detailed student behavior in a self-contained learning environment 2. Many MOOCs largely mirror traditional on-campus courses in types of resources, format, and chronology 3. 154,000 registered for this class 46,000 never accessed the class 6% or about 9,200 received Certificates 4. Tracking logs were used to determine time spent watching videos, participating in discussion, time spent on homework • An extensive study of student participation in an edX course was recently published in C.ACM

17. Some Final Thoughts • MOOCs are clearly addressing a demand for online content • benefit of taking classes whenever/wherever it is convenient to the student, and • benefit of accessing content that is not available locally • But MOOCs require significant capital investment • computer infrastructure • staff are needed for course capture, course editing, course monitoring, and general administration • Course authors must be compensated, e.g. fixed price or royalty based • Universities (and for-profit companies) entering the space must formulate a business model • will they be granting certificates, actual course credit, even degrees • will it cannibalize on-campus programs • will it reduce faculty costs or encounter faculty resistance

18. Congratulations Ira