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How to Milk a MOOC Catheryn Cheal, Associate Professor, San Jose State University

How to Milk a MOOC Catheryn Cheal, Associate Professor, San Jose State University. Writing Plato, c. 370 BC, Phaedrus, speech of Socrates.

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How to Milk a MOOC Catheryn Cheal, Associate Professor, San Jose State University

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  1. How to Milk a MOOCCatheryn Cheal, Associate Professor, San Jose State University

  2. WritingPlato, c. 370 BC, Phaedrus, speech of Socrates “The fact is that (this invention) will produce forgetfulness in the souls of those who have learned it. They will not need to exercise their memories…”

  3. Printed BooksPope Alexander VI, 1500” “It will be necessary to maintain full control over them so that they may be prevented from bringing (these inventions) which are antagonistic to the Catholic faith or which are likely to cause trouble to believers.” • 1500

  4. BlackboardsWilliam Alcott, 1843, The Slate Blackboard and Exercises In many of our common schools, however, (this invention) has been but barely introduced. The teacher knows almost as little how to use it as his pupils.”

  5. Teaching MachinesB.F. Skinner • "Can People Be Taught Like Pigeons?" (Boehm,1960) • "Can Machines Replace Teachers?" (Luce, 1960) • "Will Robots Teach Your Children?"(Bell, 1961)

  6. “I’ll never do video!”

  7. Worries that technology will: 1. Destroy our mental/social capability. 2. Overturn the current social/political hierarchy. 3. Be misused by faculty and students. 4. Turn us into robots.

  8. MOOCs at SJSU

  9. edX EE98 Online Course

  10. SJSU/edX Partnership Electric Engineering 98 flipped course/MITx6.002x Circuits and Electronics. Fall Pilot 2012: • Traditional course= 59% passed, 40% C or lower. • edX SJSU flipped= 91% passed, 9% C or lower.

  11. SJSU Plus/Udacity Partnership • Spring 2013--Statistics, Remedial Math, AlgebraSummer 2013--Intro Psychology, Java Programming • Students--280 SJSU credit students & 30,000 Udacity no-credit students • Cost--$150 for SJSU students and free for Udacity students

  12. Udacity Studio

  13. SJSU Plus (Udacity)

  14. MOOC Development Process by Faculty • Stipend--$15,000 for 400 hours development work • Orientation Workshop • Team construction • Online teaching principles • Amount and type of work

  15. MOOC Development • Meet about construction • Write content • Record video in studio • Write problems and exams • Review content

  16. Methods • Camera over a drawing on paper • Wacom Cintiq tablet with Camtasia or Autodesk SketchPadPro and transparent hand captured by camera. • Questions and audio feedback • Headshot videos of professor—1-2 min. • Interview videos of guest lectures • Onsite videos

  17. Positive Results of SJSU Plus Pilot • Very good pedagogical, self-paced content for four courses. • Excellent retention rates for 3 courses in summer. • High enrollments and low cost.

  18. Spring and Summer Pass Rates

  19. MOOC Challenges • Contract development • Intellectual property • Faculty roles and course development • Scale up enrollments • Admission, registration, payment, pre-req and disabilities checkingprocesses • Webpages and systems technology integration

  20. Faculty Issues • Governance for online conversion • Ownership of course content • Exam Proctoring • External Contracts • Enrollment Numbers

  21. How to Start a MOOC Decide on your purpose: • Publicity for the university or programs? • Lower costs? • Greater access for students? • New content for better pedagogy?

  22. Future of MOOCs 1. Publicity and Global Education

  23. Future of MOOCs 2. Individualization

  24. Future of MOOCs 3. Interactive Textbooks

  25. Thank You!

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