1. MOOCs Are Really Great!
But What's Next?
Charles Severance
University of Michigan
School of Information
http://www.dr-chuck.com/
@drchuck
https://www.coursera.org/course/insidetheinternet

2. Quick Questions
https://www.coursera.org/course/insidetheinternet

3. 2002
1996

6. Internet: TCI
Nuthin' But Net

7. • Number of seats in the UM Football Stadium: 109, 901
• Number of students signed up for IHTS: 45572
• Number of IHTS students completing week 1: 11640
• University of Michigan Undergraduate Degrees (appx): 6,600
• Number of students who took the IHTS Final: 5401
• Number of IHTS certificates: 4595
• Students in SI502 this Fall: 152

8. Survey Data (n=4701)
• Is this your first online class?
• 2262 - Yes 2534 - No
• Is this your first large, free, online course (i.e. MOOC)?
• 3101 - Yes 1687 - No
• Are you currently a student in a school or college?
• 1299 - Yes 3483 - No

9. Survey Data (n=4701)
• Are you currently a teacher?
• 602 - Yes 4173 - No
• Are you thinking about reusing this material for your own course?
• 727 - Yes 2022 - No
• What is your gender?
• 3217 - Male 1521 - Female

10. 1800"
Age
1600"
1400"
1200"
1000"
800"
600"
400"
200"
0"
18(24" 25(34" 35(44" 45(54" 55+"
n=4701

11. Prof.%
Some%HS,%
(MD,JD),%243%
117%
Doctoral,% HS,%407%
226%
Some%
College,%499%
Masters,% Assoc(2%yr),%
1344% 286%
BS/BA%(4%yr),%
1675%
Education n=4701

12. n=4701
Location
http://www.dr-chuck.com/coursera/insidetheinternet/2012-001/maps/where.html

13. n=4701
School
http://www.dr-chuck.com/coursera/insidetheinternet/2012-001/maps/school.html

14. 16000"
14000" Lecture"
Quiz"
12000" Extra"
Final"
10000" Cert"
8000"
6000"
4000"
2000"
0"
1" 2" 3" 4" 5" 6" 7" 8"

15. My Goals For the Course

16. Be an Introductory Course
• We need low-stakes "pre-requisite" courses in Coursera
• How to behave
• How to use the software
• How to write
• Figure out technical issues
• How to learn from others and help others learn....

17. Be an Open Learning Community
• Open Source works well when there is a "Benevolent Dictator"
• There needs to be real and enforced rules - but as few as possible
• Those in power must not hide behind their power and must share
their power with those who show the right behavior
• Must make valued behaviors "infectious" / "amplified"

18. Teach the Teachers
• I don't beleive that all students in the world should consider me their
teacher in this space
• I wrote a "book"- I want others to adopt it and re-mix it
• Related to making a "learning community"

19. New York NY, Los Angeles CA,
Ann Arbor MI, Wilmington, NC,
Chicago IL, Washington, DC,
Memphis, TN, Seattle WA, Seoul,
Barcelona, London, Amsterdam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzNHvmSv8T

20. Cheating Detection
• Thirty question exam
• Ten questions gave full credit for some wrong answers
• Total number of possible 30/30 answer keys = ~60,000
• Tracked the pattern of answer keys over the two-week exam period

23. What is Next?

24. Concerns
• There cannot be "one" vendor for these course materials
• Closed Source - Slow Innovation
• Lost sight of the move to Open Educational Resources
• Remixability / translation / localiation

26. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY-Ogkc7Mnw

27. Open Source - Open Standards
• Open Source Course Authoring Environment
• Open Source Open Book Authoring Environment
• Open Source MOOC run-time Environment
• Truly open and remixable educational resources

32. Thank you.
https://www.coursera.org/course/insidetheinternet