Blending Quality Learning

to Survive the MOOC Invasion

Zaid Ali Alsagoff

Lets First Do Some
SUPERBRAIN Yoga

To ENERGIZE and ACTIVATE the brain

by synchronizing ALPHA brain waves.
Video: http://youtu.be/KSwhpF9iJSs
Super Brain Yoga (research report: http://www.pranichealingontario.ca/SUPERBRAIN.pdf Instructions: http://www.shridesk.com/post/2011/12/20/Thoppukaranam-Super-Brain-Yoga#.UorDXdJmgk0
Super Brain Yoga (SlideShare): http://www.slideshare.net/solarm_india/superbrain-yoga-7136961
How to Rescue the World of Learning?

MOOCs

http://edudemic.com/2012/11/the-20-biggest-education-facts-you-should-know/
The single BIGGEST CHANGE in education
since the printing press.

Anant Agarwal (President, edX)

http://youtu.be/IlNU60ZKj3I
 Agenda
1. MOOCs

2. Blended Learning

3. Learning Trends

4. Moving Forward
1
MOOCs
 MOOOOOOC!

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/07/the-single-most-important-experiment-in-higher-education/259953/
 History of Online Education
DISTANCE EDUCTION

History of Online Education: http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/online-educational-delivery-models-descriptive-view

History of Distance Education (Infographic): http://www.straighterline.com/online-education-resources/online-education-tools/infographic-history-of-distance-education/
 What is a MOOC?

Massive
Open
Online
Course
Extracted from an infographic: http://visual.ly/rise-moocs

A type of online course aimed at large-scale interactive participation and open access.
Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/c/cb/20130514160027%21MOOC_poster_mathplourde.jpg
 MOOC History: Milestones
2007
David Wiley: open wiki-based course
Alec Couros: Social Media and Open Education
2008
CCK08 and other open courses
MOOC term coined
2011
Stanford Universitys Fall Class attracts 160,000+
enrolments
2012
Professor leaves Stanford to cofound UDACITY
MIT launch MITx
2 Stanford Professors launch COURSERA
MIT and Harvard launch edX
2013
The world is MOOCified!
Adapted from (Slide 9): http://www.slideshare.net/gsiemens/designing-and-running-a-mooc
 MOOC Example?

STANFORD UNIVERSITY EXPERIMENT

Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig offered a "Introduction to Artificial
Intelligence" course online to anyone, for free. A few weeks later, over
160,000 students in more than 190 countries enrolled in their first class.
https://www.ai-class.com/
 More Importantly

23,000 students passed!

(253 got perfect scores)
410 online students outperformed the top
Stanford student!
Students were teaching students (Q&A online
forum with voting system).
Students themselves translated the class for
free from English into 44 languages.
More: http://www.masternewmedia.org/future-education-breaking-connection-learning-assessment/ More: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/05/opinion/bennett-udacity-education/
 Then Sebastian Thrun Left
Stanford University and co-founded Udacity

http://www.udacity.com/
Is a for-profit educational organization founded by
 Udacitys Mission is to
Bring accessible, affordable, engaging, and highly effective
higher education to the world.

Higher education is a basic human right!

https://www.udacity.com/us
 Udacitys Learning Flavor?
4
1 5

3
2 6

https://www.udacity.com/how-it-works
Use Meetup to Connect Students to
Meet up and study together in the physical world!

http://www.meetup.com/Udacity/
In-person tutorials for MOOCs?

"We think humans and in-person interaction must be

part of the future of education."
http://www.coursepods.org/
MOOCs: Interaction, Feedback & Assessment?

Approaches Examples
1. Crowd-sourced Peer-review Assignments (peer-grading)
interaction & Forums
feedback Group collaboration (Wikis)
Blogs (assignments)
Micro-blogging (Twitter)
Facebook & Google+ (Discussion/Group Work)
RSS feeds (aggregation)
Other Social Media/Web 2.0 tools.
2. Automated Quizzes
feedback Exams (Mid-term, final, etc.)
Auto-corrected simulations
Etc.

Adapted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course

The ELITIST MOOC Providers

Unless YOU
are World Class

Forget it!
Do-It-Yourself (DIY) MOOC Options?

World Mentoring
Academy
 Largest MOOC Provider in Terms of Students?

5,5+
Million

Learning from 542 Courses, from Coursera 107 Partners.

*As of 19/11/2103 https://www.coursera.org/

Top 9 courses (Lifetime enrollment):

http://simplystatistics.org/2013/09/16/data-analysis-in-the-top-9-courses-in-lifetime-enrollment-at-coursera/
 The Worlds Largest MOOC to Date?

320,000 Enrolled Students

*As of 19/11/2103 https://www.udacity.com/course/cs101

 Did You Know

2012
MIT and Harvard
have invested
$60 million
($30 million each)
to launch the
collaboration.
Anant Agarwal
President, edX

http://www.edxonline.org/
 Top 10 MOOC-Providing Universities

*As of 5 July, 2013

Source (p. 20): http://ussc.edu.au/ussc/assets/media/docs/publications/130801_DisruptiveEducation_GallagherGarrett.pdf
 MOOCs Invading Europe?

http://openeducationeuropa.eu/en/european_scoreboard_moocs

*As of 31/10/2013
 Worldwide Growth Since March 2013

http://openeducationeuropa.eu/en/european_scoreboard_moocs

*As of 31/10/2013
 World Distribution of MOOCs by Subject

http://openeducationeuropa.eu/en/european_scoreboard_moocs

*As of 31/10/2013
 MOOCs for the Arab World?
The Queen Rania Foundation is Partnering with edX
to Create First MOOC Portal for the Arab World.

11/07/2013
Source: https://www.edx.org/blog/moocs-arab-world/1285
 MOOCs for China?

Tsinghua University launched its own platform partnering with

https://www.xuetangx.com/
First Malaysia Boleh MOOCs?

https://www.openlearning.com/courses/
MOOC Platform for Malaysia?

Partner with

?
Challenges?

http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/files/MOOC_MOOC.html
http://www.avatargeneration.com/2013/06/trends-in-mooc-adoption-infographic/
Four Barriers That MOOCs Must Overcome To
Build a Sustainable Model

- Phil Hill
http://mfeldstein.com/four-barriers-that-moocs-must-overcome-to-become-sustainable-model/
The average
MOOC
completion
rate is just....

6.8%

http://www.slideshare.net/KristyAnamoutou/cba-mooc-futurelearningenvironment?from_search=4
 10 Reasons Why MOOC Students Quit
1. Takes too Much Time
2. Assumes Too Much Knowledge
3. Too Basic, Not Really at the Level of Stanford, Oxford
and MIT
The MOOC is free,
4. Lecture Fatigue but you have to buy
5. Poor Course Design my book
6. Clunky Community/Communication Tools
7. Bad Peer Review & Trolls
8. Surprised by Hidden Costs
9. Youre Just Shopping Around
10. Youre There to Learn, Not for the Credential at the End

http://www.openculture.com/2013/04/10_reasons_you_didnt_complete_a_mooc.html Dan Colman

 Interesting to Note that for

Students who submit the first

assignment (on Coursera), the
completion rate leaps to 45%
For students who are paying
$50 (new Signature Track
program) the pass rates 70%
Source: http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/coursera-takes-a-nuanced-view-of-mooc-dropout-rates/43341 Daphne Koller
Potential MOOC Business Models?

Source (page 10): http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/2013/667

 MOOC Income Model Possibilities?
Certification
Endowment
Employee Recruitment
Institutional
Government

Donations Membership

Advertising Sponsorship
Applicant Screening
 Business Model Example: Coursera
Earn a Verified Certificate with Signature Track

39
https://www.coursera.org/signature/
 Business Model Example: Coursera
1

https://www.coursera.org/signature/
 Business Model Example: Coursera
2

https://www.coursera.org/signature/
 From MOOC Courses to.

The Georgia Institute of Technology, Udacity and AT&T have teamed up to offer the first
accredited Master of Science in Computer Science that students can earn exclusively through
the MOOC delivery format for $6,600 (US Dollars).
http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/
Image Source: http://edf.stanford.edu/readings/online-educa-mooc-bubble-mooc-tastic-or-mooc-agnostic
 Great for Learning, Bad for Business?

Students will only continue to pay real money

for university degrees if they continue to add
much more value than other cheaper and more
convenient educational experiences and
credentials.

- Sean Gallagher & Geoffrey Garrett

Source: http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2013/10/17/technology/ending-mooc-hype-cycle
 Fifteen years from now
more than half of the
universities will be in
bankruptcy, including the
state schools
- Clayton Christensen
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/02/07/disruption-guru-christensen-why.html?page=all
http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/cetisli/
How Much Time Do WE Have?

Gartner Hype Cycle Image (Jonathan Tapson, September 2013): http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2013/10/17/technology/ending-mooc-hype-cycle

McMOOC image: http://www.noiseprofessor.org/page/2/

 Are you up for
the Challenge? Curt Bonk

Source: http://travelinedman.blogspot.com/2012/06/unabridged-interview-on-mooc-for.html
 MOOCs WONT
KILL Campus Education!

MOOCs are here to stay,

so DEAL WITH IT!

MOOCs will force us to rethink

and TRANSFORM CAMPUS
EDUCATION!
More About MOOCsStart Here?

http://www.slideshare.net/zaid/demystifying-moocs
2
Blended
Learning
 Blended Learning?
Blended learning refers to a formal education
program in which a student learns: Online

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1) At least in part through online learning, with
some element of student control over time,
place, path, and/or pace;
2) At least in part in a supervised brick-and- F2F
mortar location away from home; and

=
3) The modalities along each students learning
path within a course are connected to provide
an integrated learning experience. Blended

*F2F: Face-to-Face
Clayton Christensen Institute (Source): http://www.christenseninstitute.org/key-concepts/blended-learning-2/
Blended Learning Matrix?

http://www.knewton.com/blended-learning/
Clayton Christensen Institute (Source): http://www.christenseninstitute.org/blended-learning-model-definitions/
3
Learning
Trends
 How to TRANSFORM
our Students Learning
Experiences?
 21st Century Educators Dont Say

Hand It In!

They say, Publish It!

http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2009/11/21st-century-educators-dont-say-hand-it.html
 Brain-Designed Learning

John Medina

to stimulate the Brain and maximize Students potential.

Brain Rules: http://brainrules.net/ Brain-Targeted Teaching: http://braintargetedteaching.org/
Rethink Classroom Learning!

Infographic: http://www.knewton.com/flipped-classroom/
Introduction Video: http://youtu.be/26pxh_qMppE
 Jackie
Gerstein

http://www.slideshare.net/jgerst1111/flipped-classroom-higher-education
Reuse/Remix OER & Repurpose MOOCs...

For Course Content!

http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-oer-workshop-at-imu.html

dScribe: https://open.umich.edu/wiki/DScribe *OER: Open Educational Resources

 Build e-Learning Content Rapidly
Co-Create
content with
students?

Chunked Juicily (1 - 10 min) for Mobile Learning!

Use Interactive Web Tools to Spice Up

Classroom Learning!
Students and Faculty using Interactive Web Tools.

Buzz me if you
want to
LEARN HOW

*Pictures taken by Hasnain Zafar Baloch (Senior Instructional Designer, IMU).

http://hasnainzafar.wordpress.com/ Hasnain Zafar Baloch
 Construct Learning Spaces that

INSPIRE STUDENTS to Connect, Collaborate, Think and Learn!

http://www.educause.edu/research-and-publications/books/learning-spaces
 Empower Personal Learning Environments (PLEs)!

Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth,

LMS

2011
Rather than integrating different tools into a centralized system, the idea is to provide the
learner with a myriad of tools and hand over control to her to select, combine and use the tools
the way she deems fit.. - Mohamed Amine Chatti
Remixed version from: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2010/07/anatomy-of-ple.html
 Social Media & Web 2.0/3.0/x.0

Social Connectivity diagram (slide 12): http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2010/07/web-30-way-forward.html

 Blooms Digital Taxonomies!
Web 2.0

iPad
M
O
Google R
E

Android

http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-juicy-collection-of-blooms-digital.html
Interact & Collaborate Using

Various Web 2.0 Tools!

IMU Webinar Series (example): http://imuelearning.blogspot.com/p/imu-learning-webinar-series-2012.html
Embrace Multi-Device Learning!
Bring Your Own Devices (BYODs)

Inspired by: http://www.slideshare.net/steverayson/kineo-responsive-elearning

 Use Augmented Reality & Wearable Technologies

To Transform Learning & Teaching Experiences!

http://pinterest.com/twahlert/augmented-reality-in-education/

Infographic: http://www.theconnectivist.com/2013/05/infographic-the-internet-of-being/
Google Glass in Education: http://visual.ly/google-glass-education
 Empower Educators & Student with 3D Printers
To Create 3D models that illustrate complex
concepts or illuminate novel ideas, designs,
and even chemical and organic molecules.

Imagine Medical Students rapid prototyping

and building artificial body parts.
Why Imagine
only, when you
can do it!

Article: http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/19/reshaping-universities-through-3d-printing/
Gamify Student Learning Experiences!

http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2012/09/from-flipped-to-gamified-classroom.html
In Learning Terms, Gamifying Means

Turning the class content and the way students

learn into a game with a rewards system, quests,
experience levels, and healthy competition

Is
NOTHING
New!

http://www.mrdaley.com/wordpress/2011/07/27/education-levels-up-a-newbs-guide-to-gamifying-your-classroom/
Example: Uses Moodle & Google Docs!
Uses elements of game
design to improve his AP
Biology class. The entire
class revolves around
Moodle. Students complete
levels to acquire experience
points and move up the
leader board.

His Method: http://youtu.be/XGE6osTXym8

Paul Andersen
BozemanScience: http://www.bozemanscience.com/
 CSC
2 2

Method
http://www.slideshare.net/zaid/gamify-classroom-learning-with-the-c2s2c-method
 Use C2S2C Method to
LO

LO 5 Celebrate!
COURSE LO 4 Score

Learning 3 Show
Outcome
LO (LO)
LO LO 2 Compete

1 Challenge
LEARNING
ACTIVITY GAMIFY IT!
http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2012/09/from-flipped-to-gamified-classroom.html
Discover the C2S2C Method Here

http://www.slideshare.net/zaid/gamify-classroom-learning-with-the-c2s2c-method
Infuse Creativity & STORIFY Learning!

BULLETS stick for exams,

STORIES stick for life
Zaid Ali Alsagoff!
http://sirkenrobinson.com/skr/watch
 Use a Variety of Methods to Assess More

Rubrics E-Portfolio

Peer-Assessment Learning Analytics

AUTHENTIC Learning & Empower PERSONALIZED Learning!
http://web.me.com/janherrington/AuthenticLearning/Home.html
For Tracking Online/Offline Learning Experiences!
http://tincanapi.com/
4
Moving
Forward
 BIG Challenges Ahead!

Finding your NICHE among multiple

educational delivery models.
The NEW LEGITIMACY of Online Education
will lead to new pressures.
Online Education will INCREASE
COMPETITION.

Adapted from: http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/online-educational-delivery-models-descriptive-view

Blending Quality Learning Environments?
1. Explore possibilities to discover the right blend of
online and F2F learning to transform the courses. Online
2. Empower student-centered learning experiences
that embrace higher order thinking skills and
mastery learning.
3. Design collaborative and engaging learning
+F2F
experiences using social media, rapid e-learning
tools and reusing/remixing OER/MOOC content

=
(when possible).
4. Assess learning continuously (formative & Blended
summative) using a variety of methods to measure
more authentic learning.
 Blending Quality Learning Environments?
5. Personalize learning using adaptive assessment
technologies and learning analytics. Online

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6. Encourage student ownership through
negotiation and co-creation of learning targets and
experiences.
7. Transform ourselves to become better educators F2F
proactively by always embracing change and

=
exploring possibilities.

Blended

Smart Sparrow (Adaptive e-Learning): https://www.smartsparrow.com/

 One More Thing
LEARNING SHOULD BE FUN, TOO!
 Finally, You Might Want To

Have a
ZaidLearn!

http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/
 Zaid Ali Alsagoff
E-Learning Manager
E-mail : zaid.alsagoff@gmail.com
Blog : http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/
Slides : http://www.slideshare.net/zaid
Twitter: http://twitter.com/zaidlearn
IMU : http://imu.edu.my
DID : +603-2731 7327
Ext. : 3115