This document discusses trends in education technology (EdTech) and MOOCs. It notes the rise of online learning platforms, including MOOCs like Udacity, as well as platforms for teachers, coding bootcamps, and language learning. While MOOCs were initially hyped as replacing universities, the document argues they are just one part of EdTech that is empowering learners across their lives. It sees online learning becoming more adaptive, immersive and supportive with premium features, while raising questions around assessment, content curation, social learning support, and accreditation.

2. MOOCs & EdTech
What’s happening and why should I care?

3. 1. What’s the cheese with EdTech?
2. What is this MOOC thing?
3. Are MOOCs all that’s going on?
4. Where are we going?
5. What’s missing in this picture?

4. 1. What’s the cheese with EdTech?

5. Huge Incumbents
Disruption…….???........Profit

6. Underinvested Industry
Misalignment between industry size and
investment & exits

7. 98m extra university students
within 12 years
- UNESCO

8. Lifelong learning
Global competition for jobs

9. Rising cost of traditional
education

10. Digital vocation
Yep, that’s the same image

11. 2. What is this MOOC thing?

13. Udacity: Introduction to AI
P r o b a b l y t h e f i r s t M O O C

14. Before MOOCs

15. Why all the hype?
MOOCs will kill universities!
OMG Stanford for free!
Probably the combination of high quality
lectures, good branding, good production.

16. 3. What’s really happening?

17. MOOCs are just one part

18. Empowering Teachers
Udemy
Fedora
Thinkific
Floqq

21. Tech Training
Udacity Nanodegrees
Treehouse
Codeacademy
Mapr
Hootsuite U

23. Language Learning
Duolingo
Rosetta Stone

25. Hybrid Models
Khan Academy
Coding Bootcamps

26. Others
Stackexchange
Quora
Project Based Learning
Tutoring/Mentoing

27. 4. Where’s this going?

28. FITS YOUR LIFE
Learning

29. Content is (almost) free

30. Content is adaptive
Knewton

31. Content is immersive

32. Support, help and
accreditation
Premium features

33. DON’T REQUIRE A DEGREE
Employers
EXPECT LIFELONG LEARNING
b u t

34. 5. What’s missing?

35. Assessment
You like multiple choice right?

36. Content Curating
Who likes consistency?

37. Social stuff
People learn best together
Studyroom, Edmodo, Q&As

38. Accreditation
How do employers understand?
Mozilla Open Badges, Pearson Vue Acclaim, Degreed, Accredible

39. alan@accredible.com