To Mooc or not to Mooc, That is the Question - Willem van Valkenburg
1. To MOOC or not to MOOC
that is the Question
Willem van Valkenburg
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2. What is a MOOC?
MOOC poster by Mathieu Plourde licensed CC-BY:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mathplourde/8620174342/sizes/l/in/photostream/
3. What is Massive?
CC-BY-SA chris.corwin: https://www.flickr.com/photos/70872463@N00/1477994596
CC BY martha_chapa95: https://flic.kr/p/8VQgnC
5. CC-BY Alan Levine:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/7155294
657/in/pool-openandclosed
6. “In order for open education to reach its varied
potentials, openness must become a core cultural
value for each and every faculty member.” David Wiley
9. What’s in the News?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2012/05/06/will-edx-put-harvard-and-mit-out-of-
business/
http://www.wired.com/2014/08/whats-wrong-moocs-arent-changing-game-education/
10. Gartner Hype Cycle for MOOCs
Source: http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/cetisli/2013/06/25/moocs-and-higher-education-what-is-next/
11. The theory of
ʺdisruptive innovationʺ
„A process by which a product or service
takes root initially in simple applications at
the bottom of a market and then
relentlessly moves ‘up market’, eventually
displacing established competitors”
‒ Professor Clayton M. Christensen,
Harvard Business School
Author of Disrupting Class (2008) and The
Innovative University (2011)
Low ranked (under)
graduate
degree programs
Top ranked (under) graduate degree
programs
High ranked (under) graduate
degree programs
Clayton Christensen
19. Next Generation
Infrastructures - 2
Drinking Water
Treatment
Functional
Programming
Delft Design
Approach
Technology for
Biobased Products
Solving Complex
Problems
Responsible
Innovation
Treatment of
Urban Sewage
Introduction to
Water & Climate
Introduction to
Solar Energy
Aeronautical
Engineering
Pre-University
Calculus
22. Online
Course
• Pay per course
• Bachelor and
master
• Single Course
• <10 EC
• Course Certificate
Series
• Pay per course
• Bachelor and
Master
• Couple of courses
• 10 -15 EC
• Formal Certificate
Module
• Pay per course
• Bachelor & Master
• Couple of
courses/series
• 30 EC
• Formal Diploma
Programme
• Pay per course
• Master
• Couple of
courses/series/modules
• > 60 EC
• Formal Master
MOOC
• Open Access
• Bachelor level
• Single course
• No EC
• Certificate of
Completion
Blended
Education
Making the best use of Open & Online, and campus education
OpenCourseWare Course materials, free, reusable, online, no certificate, no guidance/support
OpenCourseWare: Course Materials available for use and re-use, for free, worldwide (700 visitors a day). No certificates, but pilot with Study Badges (informal certificates of Study Skills)Goal: Enlarge Access to Educational Materials, empower institution’s reputation
example: publishing OCW led to Cooperation with ITB Bandung and Mozambique institutions
Online Distance Education: Pilot starts september 2013, Students need to enroll but are not physically in Delft (everything happens online). Small numbers of enrolled studentsd (20?)Goal: provide a Masters degree via Online Education to those who want but are unable to come to Delft, enlarge audience
MOOCs: Online, MassiveGoal: strenghten reputation, enlarge access to Higher Education