MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSES AS DRIVERS FOR CHANGE. Lynne O Brien Director, Academic Technology & Instructional Services Duke University Dec.

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1 MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSES AS DRIVERS FOR CHANGE Lynne O Brien Director, Academic Technology & Instructional Services Duke University Dec. 10, 2012

2 Overview! Why: context for MOOCs at Duke! What: current activities! Impact: teaching, technology, library, publishers! Looking back: early lessons learned! Looking forward: anticipating more change

3 Why MOOCs at Duke?! The Duke context! The higher education

4 Steve Craig, Chemistry Curated existing open-access materials Contributed new materials via Creative Commons license Shifted lecture outside the classroom Focused class time on problem solving, team work Materials could substitute for textbook, usable on mobile devices Dave Johnson, Marine Lab Created multimedia textbook for subject where none existed; offered as open access resource Students, scientists contributed images, text and open access research studies Students collected underwater acoustics, images with ipad App developed by students in Duke Computer Science class w/cit support

5 Milestones in online initiatives among elite institutions and for-profit spinoffs academic year Stanford announces 3 popular CS courses will be offered free online in October 2011 MITx announced by MIT Udacity.com announced $5M venture capital Coursera launches with 4 partner schools and $16M in venture capital edx MIT, Harvard make $60M investment!"#$%!""#$"%&'()( %#$*'&'(+, -#$*'&*!.(( / '0 (0#(1!$"%2( 3&405(67/6! Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul 2011 &'(&% Stanford offers 3 free online courses - Introduction to AI, Introduction to Databases, and Machine Learning First Udacity courses begin MITx offers Circuits and Electronics

6 What activities are underway?

7 Coursera start up company founded by Stanford profs Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng 33 selective U.S. and foreign universities offering 200 courses 2 million students to date Open access: No admissions process, tuition or materials fees No credit from university; some courses have statement of accomplishment based on criteria set by the instructor

8 Duke Coursera registrations (12/4/12) 445K+ total Think Again 172K Irrational Behavior 75K Astronomy 58K Human Physiology 36K Genetics & Evolution (1st) 29K Medical Neuroscience 22K Healthcare Innovation 17K Bioelectricity 12K Image Processing 12K Genetics & Evolution (2nd) 7K Sports and Society 5K

9 173 countries across 4 courses United States 34% Europe 29% 44 countries represented (all but Leichtenstein & San Marino) Top 5: UK, Spain, Germany, Greece, Romania ~ 13% of Asian students in Russia Asia 17% 44 countries represented 22 other N. America & Caribbean nations add 7% Africa 2% 42 countries represented ~ 30% of Asian students in India South America 7% 12 countries represented ~! from S.A. are in Brazil 60% in Egypt, S. Africa, Nigeria Oceania 3% Based on over 42,000 responses to pre-course surveys for four courses

10 Who takes quantitative bioelectricity for no credit? a final year medical student from Brazil... here to brush up on some of the Biophysics in Maryland, doing research in the area of cardiac bioelectricity. I took a similar course during grad school but when I saw that the course is offered by Dr. Barr, pioneer of the field, I wanted to hear about it from the master himself. from China, now a bio med engineering undergrad at Boston University from Colorado. I have been in nursing for 20 years now and have a great interest in bio-electricity as it relates to the cardiac muscle! finishing high school. Biology has always fascinated me so I'm choosing my future studies through coursera, bioelectricity might be the one to go for :)! a vet from Spain interested in neurobiology a freelance Technical writer for healthcare, communications, customer service, and business an electrophysiologist and a full-time working mother with a young baby, so I don't expect to be competitive but to enjoy whatever I can learn

11 Impact of MOOCs at Duke so far! (in six months at Duke)

12 Impact: Teaching innovation! Flipped classroom! Flexible class meetings, varied course length! External participants, global perspectives in Duke classes! MOOCs for prep or advanced work! Continuing ed! Modular content for reuse! Extend Duke curriculum! Connect with alumni! Basic science courses shared across medical institutions?! Big data to improve teaching! Adapt to change as students come to campus having taken MOOCs

13 Impact: tech support and planning CIT & OIT: Course promo page Course redesign MOOC teaching strategies Technology platform use Video production, video kits Campus media storage Link to campus tools Provost office: Faculty stipend Assessment leadership School or department: TA or other assistants (Some) materials production

14 Impact: library & publishing! Copyright review & negotiation in Library Scholarly Communication office! McGraw Hill, Cengage and Elsevier providing free versions of textbooks in some courses! Software companies offering free or discounted software in courses! Print books have sold out. E-books not always available.! Not clear how licensed library resources could be provided

15 Looking back: early findings

16 Early findings: completion! Bioelectricity (ended11/27/12)! 12,414 registered! 7,593 watched video! 1267 answered Week 1 quizzes! 358 took final exam! 313 earned certificate! 260 of those with distinction! 25% of all who earned at least one point on week 1 quizzes! More students than in 10 years of campus course! Statement of Accomplishment for Duke s first Coursera course

17 Early findings: cheating Students set anti-cheating norms! Coursera to do online proctoring of exams for ACE credit courses! Hand graded assignments in Princeton Sociology Coursera course found <3% plagiarism! Continuing to explore technical and teaching solutions

18 Looking ahead: more change! Life span learning! Global! Social! Iterative / data driven! Embedded! Open! Experimental

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20 Credits! Provost s Office! Office of Information Technology! Duke Libraries! Center for Information Technology! Scholarly Communications Office

21 Discussion