Basic Civil Engineering first year Notes- Chapter 4 Building.pptx
The University as a Cloud: Openness in Education
1. The University as a Cloud:
Openness in Education
Charles Severance
University of Michigan
School of Information
http://www.dr-chuck.com/
@drchuck
https://www.coursera.org/course/insidetheinternet
5. • Number of seats in the UM Football Stadium: 109, 901
• Number of students signed up for IHTS: 45572
• Number of IHTS students completing quiz 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
6. 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
7. 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
14. 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....
15. 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"
16. 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"
17. New York NY, Los Angeles, Ann
Arbor MI, Wilmington, NC,
Chicago, Washington, DC, Memphis,
TN, Seattle WA, Seoul, Barcelona,
London, Amsterdam
Manila http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6zlQZcM72o
18. Cheating Detection Experiment
• 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
26. • Charging for certificates
• Serving as matchmaker between companies and students
• Selling courses to community colleges
• Give course on campus and pay Coursera to support services
• Charge for secure assessments
• All these are just ideas....
http://chronicle.com/article/Document-Examine-the-U-of/133063/
33. 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
36. Open Source - Open Standards
• Open Source Course Authoring Environment
• Open Source Open Book Authoring Environment
• Open Source MOOC run-time Environment based on standards
• Truly open and remixable educational resources