1. MOOC& Libraries s Massive Opportunity or Overwhelming
Challenge?Jim Michalko, OCLC ResearchWith ample borrowings from
Lorcan Dempsey, Brian Lavoie, Chris Galvin and Tam Dalrymple of
OCLC
2. MEDIA FRENZY Individual personal attention Any schedule Any
place Tutorial relationship takes into account individual
differences in learning Better than the crowded classroom of the
ordinary American University
3. MEDIA FRENZY Individual personal attention Any schedule Any
place Tutorial relationship takes into account individual
differences in learning Better than the crowded classroom of the
ordinary American UniversityUniversity of Chicagos Home-Study
Department regarding their correspondence courses
4. At least as daunting as the technical challenges will be the
existential questions that online instruction raises for
universities. Whether massive open courses live up to their hype or
not, they will force college administrators and professors to
reconsider many of their assumptions about the form and meaning of
teaching. For better or worse, the Nets disruptive forces have
arrived at the gates of academia.Nicholas Carr, MIT Technology
Review 27 September 2012
5. (Various precursor strands in online education . )
6. (Various precursor strands in online education . )
7. MassiveOpenOnlineCourse
8. MassiveOpen Scalable to large numbers Free, accessible
collaborative,OnlineReimagined for networkCourse environment Not
just materials
9. April 2012
10. April 2012
11. BUSINESS NAME TYPE FUNDING PARTNERS COURSES MODEL
Non-profit; 12 including MIT, Harvard: 26 courses at Plans to
charge MIT EdX $30m each at March 2013; Academic fee for
Harvard(April 2012) U. of Tex: $5m certificates of 500,000 reg. UC
Berkeley Gates: $1m completion 370,000 users U. Of Texas 62
University VC: $16m For-profit; 328 courses at partners,Coursera
(KPCB, NEA) Plans to charge March 2013 ; including:(April 2012)
Academic Addl equity $6m for certification, Columbia 1.5 m reg.
(including testing, sale of 680,000 users U. Of Toronto Cal Tech,
Penn) student info (July 2012) U. of Washington VC: $22m
For-profit; In-person proctored Notables: 22 courses
(AndreesenUdacity Academic Horowitz, exam $89; Sebastian Thrun
750,000 users(April 2012) Job placement; Peter Norvig Charles
River, Plans for fee-based (January 2012) Steve Huffman Steve
Blank) online secure exams OSullivan Nearly all content 3,500
videos; Foundation:$5m; created by Salmon 200m lessons Non-profit;
Khan; General Gates, Google: 2 addtl faculty delivered; Khan $2m;
No revenue hired; plans to hire 1.4m reg.Academy Private donors
more (Dec. 2011)
12. A few more Funding from Hewlett, Shuttleworth, Mozilla
Incubated at UC Irvine Classes set up as challenges to be solved
collaboratively Funding from Hewlett, Gates, Kresge, NSF, others
Non-profit Some courses free; some have maintenance fees Some
courses used by universities/colleges to support classroom
instruction Platform available for others to design and deploy new
coursesOwned by Ampush MediaAggregates online open courses form
universities Bisk Education and Embanet+Compass, around the world
within a single interface, with Etc. Etc. along with Pearson, are
perhaps the additional services layered on top most visible
players, but Academic Partnerships, Deltak, 2tor and Learning House
have also built successful businesses doing online program
development for colleges $12. 5m venture capital funding Online
training for programmers Business model unclear; possibly corporate
recruitment $4m venture capital funding Online learning platform
which instructors can use to host courses Free and paid courses
available 30% cut of fees for paid courses
13. Why now?
14. MOOCs have become a flashpoint for discussionof higher ed
because they represent an easilygraspable, almost parodic version
of what waspreviously invisible : elite university education.They
have a unique power to drive publicperception of the entire sector.
Alyson Byerly. Formerly known as students. Inside Higher Ed.
October 29 2012.
15. Broken University Business Model plus Disruptive
Technologies
16. PLATFORM WARNetwork level disruptionAspirational:
Systemwide transformationEntrepreneurialHighly computationalAttack
costs and benefits at same timeEarly . but growing faster than
17. Bisk Education and Embanet+Compass, Etc. Etc. along with
Pearson, are perhaps the most visible players, but Academic
Partnerships, Deltak, 2tor and Learning House have also built
successful businesses doing online program development for
collegesPLATFORM WARNetwork level disruptionAspirational:
Systemwide transformationEntrepreneurialHighly computationalAttack
costs and benefits at same timeEarly . but growing faster than
18. MOOC& Libraries s Massive Opportunity or Overwhelming
Challenge?