2013 04 19 (uc3m) emadrid jliepmann iversity tsunami coming moocs disrupt education iversity wants movement europe

1. Open Courses
April 2013

2. The Collaboration Network for Academia
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User Feedback
"Every day, I get more and more excited
about iversity. Posting resources is
ingeniously easy and very stimulating. The
students, too, are really enthusiastic about
iversity."
Prof. Dr. Peter A. Schmitt, Universität Leipzig
Presse
more testimonials: www.iversity.org/pages/testimonials
"... the platform that is now providing
for the future ." (Die Zeit)
In a Nutshell
Partner
Die Welt, Stern, Frankfurter Rundschau, DRadio Wissen,
Tagesspiegel and 50+ others praise iversity. Full press coverage:
http://www.iversity.org/pages/press_coverage
Partners and sponsors
Communityware (un.iversity.org)
Collaboration and networking in the cross
university community - now about 60.000 users
from over 40 countries
Massive Open Online Courses (www.iversity.org)
Fully online instruction for thousends of studentes

3. Summary - MOOCs in a Nutshell
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Watch the video here:
http://youtu.be/
U9n1wvEzUiE

4. Open Courses are disrupting the education market
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The New York Times,
May 15, 2012 (Link)
The New York Times, May 03,
2012 (Link)
DIE ZEIT, May 31, 2012 (Link)

5. The Opportunity: European Open Courses
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There is a window of oportunity for
professors and universities from Europe
to showcase their excellence in teaching
‣ iversity is a European platform
for Open Courses and a global
community of professors and
students.
‣ We seek to collaborate with
professors and universities from
all over Europe to create high
quality courses that have the
potential to attract tens of
thousands of people.
Window of Opportunity

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1. Multimedia content (e.g.
Videos)
2. Feedback mechanisms
(e.g. assignments and
quizzes).
3. A global community of
learners collaborates and
discusses the content
(crowd intelligence).
MOOCs - Making learning social and scalable
A new learning experience
Professors can teach thousends of students online

7. Building Blocks of the Platform
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Interactive
Content
Collaborative
and Social
Scalable
Gamification Adaptive
Learning
Seamless
Mobile Access
An Open Course is a set of interactive, multimedia course materials, assignments and
quizzes created by an individual instructor or a team of instructors.
Students form a global community of learners and support each other. Highly scalable
evaluation tools such as automated and crowd-sourced assessment allow to serve tens of
thousands of students in a single course.
Core Themes
Enhancements

8. Interactive Content Increases Student Engagement
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Students watch short
video lessons .
The content is
structured in short
units
Interactive
Content
Benchmark: khanacademy.org

9. Detailed Look at Video Teaching: Endless Possibilities
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Whiteboard Videos
- Teaching through socratic
dialogue using a whiteboard
to illustrate ideas
- Use case: SEOmoz -
Whiteboard Friday
Powerpoint Videos
- Teaching using powerpoint
slide videos with recorded
commentary
- Use case: Google -
Conversion University
Lecture + Slides
- The video recording of a
lecture is provided in sync
with the relevant slides and
captions
- Use case: Lecturio.de
On-the-fly Illustration
- The teacher explains
individual concepts in depth
using a digital canvas to
spell out ideas.
- Use case: Udacity & Khan
Academy
Pre-Recorded Illustration
- A presentation is unpacked
by illustration. The visual
narration unfolds in sync with
the narrative.
- Use case: RSA Animate
Animation
- A presentation is unpacked
by animation. The visual
narration unfolds in sync with
the narrative.
- Use case: HackFwd,
Explainify
Dialogue BasedNarrator Based: Lecture Video
Narrator Based: Illustration

10. Scalable testing
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Scalable
Benchmark: classmarker.com
Quizzes check
whether a concept
has been fully
understood.
True / False
Students have to identify a
statement or equation as
either true or false.
Cloze test
Students have to find the right
word, number or sign to
complete an equation or
sentence.
Free Text Response
Students have to name one
or several words or digits in
response to a question.
Multiple Choice
Students have to select the
right answer from a number of
choices.

11. P2P-Learning and P2P Grading
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To provide qualitative feedback at scale, assessment has to rely
on peer-evaluation.
The grade is calculated by averaging the five assessments. An
appeals process for outliers ensures relative fairness.
P2P - Grading

12. Collaborative and Social: crowd-sourced Q&A App
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Collaborative
and Social
Users can vote on
other users’
responses.
Students can ask and
answer open
questions.
Benchmark: quora.com

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Kickstarting MOOC PRODUCTION with a Fellowship

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MOOC PRODUCTION FELLOWSHIP
www.moocfellowship.org
30. April: Professors can apply with short course concept
and introduction video
01 - 23 May: Public Voting
22 June: Jury announces the winners
Oktober 2013 first courses begin on www.iversity.org

15. Jonas Liepmann
j.liepmann@iversity.org
We are looking forward to hearing from you.
Dahlwitzer Straße 78
D-15366 Neuenhagen bei Berlin
+49 (30) 577 093 38
www.iversity.org
Thank you for your attention!

16. ANNEX

17. IVERSITY ALL COURSES MY COURSES ACCOUNT
Sam Waterstone
Technische Universität Berlin, BMW Group, Munich
Courses
4 Achievements
Introduction to Genome Science
www.s-waterstone.com @samw Facebook Profile
100 % Complete
Computer Science 101 59 % Complete
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finished
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finished
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25 quizzes
completed
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50 Questions
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Gamification
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Basic information,
including your university
and/or employer and links
to further profiles on the
web.
List of all your courses,
including a progress bar.
Gamification - Students are awarded points and badges for engagement (e.g. Q&A activity,
progress etc.). This provides real-time “analytics” to students as well as instructors.
- Publishing achievements rewards students outside of the class context.
Samy Waterstone unlocked an achievement on iversity.
25 quizzes completed
http://www.iversity.org/students/192843
#achievements
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Samy Waterstone unlocked an achievement on iversity.
25 quizzes completed
http://www.iversity.org/students/192843
#achievements
25
Gamification of learning:
users can publish their
achievements.
Benchmark: mozilla badges

18. Adaptive Learning - How does it work?
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Short quizzes
test whether the
student understood
the concept.
Depending on the performance in the quiz
the student is subsequently referred to a
different video: either the explanation of a
new concept or an alternative explanation of
the concept previously misunderstood.
Benchmark: knewton.com
Adaptive
Learning
- Adaptive Learning is an augmentation of interactive content, as the system
provides different content depending on the student’s performance.
- This is the most evolved flavour of automatable learning.

19. Seamless Mobile Access
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Seamless
Mobile Access
- Open Courses provide content in bite size chunks. This makes it suitable for
mobile learning on iOS and Android.
- Start the lesson on your desktop, continue on your mobile device, and finish at
your desktop. We strive for a seamless transition.

20. Detailed Look at Crowdsourcing
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Teaching through Research
Market Research
The Great Sunflower Project
• Use crowdsourcing for research projects to gather
large data sets
• Students contribute data and learn about research
methods in practice
• Using elements of research as a teaching method
are not merely consumer, but co-creators of their
educational experience
Crowd Intelligence
• Course creators can employ crowd
intelligence challenges to find new solutions
to unsolved problems
• Complex assignments (e.g. writing a non-
existent Wikipedia article) can be solved by
group collaboration
Benchmark: chaordix.com
How much does a liter of milk
cost at your local supermarket?

21. The Benefits for Universities: Brandbuilding & Recruiting
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‣ Imagine a stadium filled with students from
around the world joining a course hosted by
your university.
‣ Showcase your university’s excellence:
leading professors using state of the art
technology will garner a lot of media attention.
‣ Open Courses let students interact
extensively with your university brand.
A bigger reach
Student recruiting
‣ Create a community on iversity and stay in
touch with the members of your course
‣ Promote specific Master’s and Ph.D.
programs and attract the best students
from the Open Course.