eMadrid 2014 02 14 (uc3m) emadrid Daniel Charchidi MIT Reimaging learning on campus and for the world

1. REIMAGINING LEARNING ON CAMPUS
AND FOR THE WORLD
Daniel Carchidi
MIT Office of Digital Learning
Director of Special Projects and Program Manager, MITx
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2. CAN A 1,000 YEAR-OLD INDUSTRY CHANGE?
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3. UNIVERSITIES
Lecture, Circa 1308 AD
ESTABLISHED 1088 AD
Bologna, Italy
From Wikipedia
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4. Lecture, Circa 2014 AD
Courtesy Eric Klopfer
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5. Today’s “consumers” are different from
previous generations
• The anytime anywhere
generation
• Diverse
• Socially aware & engaged
• Global perspective
• Other industries have
been swept up
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6. Digital online delivery is the next one
• MIT & Harvard invest $30M each
• Free world education
• Open source platform
• We disrupted ourselves!!
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7. Why?
Expand access to education for
students worldwide through online learning,
while reinventing campus education through
blended models
And learn about learning.
And how…
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8. MIT Office of Digital Learning
• Created November 2012
• Prof. Sanjay Sarma named Director of Digital
Learning
• Office includes:
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MIT OpenCourseWare
MITx
Office of Educational Innovation and Technology
Academic Media & Production Services

9. How are MITx and edX different?
edX is a platform for a global audience
MITx is the production house
and the product

10. MITx Mission
• support the use of digital learning tools
and techniques in the delivery of MIT
residential programs
• provide free, scalable, MIT-quality
courses to academically talented and
well-prepared learners worldwide
• and further the understanding of best
practices in emerging digital and scalable
learning environments.

11. MITx Expertise
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Project Management
Video production and management
Instructional design
Technical support
Training across these areas
Consulting - best practices and latest research

12. Pedagogical Architecture
OCW
Online education holds the key to making residential education better and less
expensive even as it promises to offer education to many millions more people.
Red indicates IP-free content
Digital Authoring of a
Class
No Formal
Master
Workflow
Corpus
Today
of Class
MITx
Yellow indicates grades management

13. EARLY FINDINGS FROM MITx ON edX COURSES

14. Providing immediate feedback
• Interspersed “finger exercises”
– Reinforces concepts at time of
acquisition
– Link to other material
– Mine data to find gaps in
knowledge
• Range of tools for automated
assessment
• Peer assessment can augment
learning experience
• Opportunity to direct learner
to discussion forums
• Early evaluations show
improved learning
• Will not work for all
disciplines?
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15. Videos 7.00x

16. Exercises auto-graded

17. Über exercises

18. Visualizations
• Active
exploration of
dynamic,
complex
systems
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19. Simulations
• Allow students to
explore concepts in
“lab” setting on their
schedule and
location
– Doesn’t provide
direct lab skills, but
enables exploration
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20. Assessment tools
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Multiple choice
Numerical questions
Equations
Algebra
Program code
Marking elements on images
Changing chemical formulas
Short answer
Peer critiquing and assessment
New tools being added on a regular basis
2/18/2014
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21. IMPLICATIONS FOR RESIDENTIAL EDUCATION AND
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
We launched to the world.
Now its coming home
2012-2014
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22. MITx residential adoption
Fall 2012 (3)
Fall 2013 (13)
8.01 Classical Mechanics
620
8.21 Physics of Energy
CC.801 Classical Mechanics
10
5.37 Organic and Inoranic Lab
ES.801 Classical Mechanics
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6.341 Discrete-time signal processing
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6.042 Mathematics for computer science
3.091 Introduction to solid state chemistry
Spring 2013 (7)
6.s064 Machine Learning
280
338
159
87
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18.05 Statistics
2.01 Elements of Structure
CC.801 Classical Mechanics
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5.111 Organic Chemistry
228
8.033 Relativity
99
6.042 Mathematics for Computer Science
8.011 Classical Mechancis
214
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3.012 Fundamentals of Material Science
8.021 Electricity and Magnetism
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CC.802 Electricity and Magnetism
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18.03 Differential Equations
227
ES.802 Electricity and Magnetism
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8.13 Experimental Physics I
67
2.03 Dynamics and Control
114
Total: 2750 (2050 unique) users
800 active users a day
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23. Our experience on campus
• Solid State Chemistry
– Required subject
– Typical “fifth week flag”
rate is 50-70 student
(out of 500)
– With immediate
feedback, multiple
attempts at problems,
rate this term was 3.

24. Other anecdotes
2.01, Intro Statics
7.012, Intro Biology
• All videos made
available online
• Regular lectures
• Regular assignments,
exams
• Unprecedented
“performance”
• All videos made
available online
• Auto-grading capability
• Final results not in but
77% say they would
use system even if not
required

25. WHAT’S NEXT?
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26. Institute-wide taskforce on the future of
education at MIT
• 50 faculty + students + staff, 40 meetings
• Faculty and student surveys
• 20+ departmental presentations
• Preliminary report at
future.mit.edu
• Final report in May
2014

27. Beneficial side-effect: modularity,
flexibility, sharing
• Active classroom in
required introductory
physics class
• Introductory EECS
course: almost all
contact in lab settings,
using automated tutor
• Mech E, EECS subjects
using modules, breaking
terms into pieces
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28. Broader impact on the campus
• What does the
classroom of the
future include?
• What does the
student residence of
the future include?
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29. New kinds of learning spaces
• Academic villages
• Hands-on learning
• Maker spaces and
sandboxes
• Studios
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30. MOOC.org + MIT OpenCourseWare =
scalable, widely accessible DIY courses

31. Conclusions
• Online tools enable an epochal leap
towards MIT’s longtime ambition:
learning by doing
• MOOCs are a wonderful outcome
• But make no mistake: online is to
enrich the magic of the residential, not
to replace it
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32. THANK YOU
Daniel Carchidi
MIT Office of Digital Learning
carchidi@mit.edu
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