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MOOCS, SPOCS, AND THE RESIDENTIAL

EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Eric Grimson

MIT



HIGHER EDUCATION IS FACING A CHALLENGE

•

Today’s students are a differentgeneration of learners

• Online tools are changing the

game

•

New modes of communicationcreate new opportunities for

community building

• This is both a challenge and an

opportunity

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TODAY’S STUDENTS ARE DIFFERENT FROM

PREVIOUS GENERATIONS

• Diverse interests and

backgrounds

• Global perspective

• Entrepreneurial

• Socially aware & engaged

• Mobile

• Wired

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HOW HAVE WE TAUGHT THEM IN THE PAST?

• Lecture format

• Passive readings

• Problem sets and

laboratories

– Limited and delayed

feedback

• Essays

– Limited and delayed

feedback

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TECHNOLOGY TRENDS ALLOW

ACCESS ANYTIME, ANYWHERE

• Students can viewlectures online onmobile devices, even

off campus• Students can interact

with tutors online ontheir schedule

•Students can posequestions, discussissues, remotely

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ONLINE TOOLS ENABLE ACCESS ANYTIME, ANYWHERE

• Video sequences replace lectures

- Video snippets interleaved withinteractive exercises

• Online textbooks, readings

• Virtual simulation-based

laboratories

• Interactive assessments withinstant feedback

• Discussion forums

• Wiki for collaboration

• Grades dashboard

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IF MOOCS ARE HERE, THEN WHY

RESIDENCE-BASED EDUCATION?

•

Intense intellectual atmosphere – Learn from interactions, debates, competitions, collaborations,

explorations, not just from knowledge acquisition

• Seeing problems in context

– Students are motivated by issues, as well as disciplines; benefit fromexploring concepts within practical contexts

• Meta-curricular skill development

– Communication, collaboration, mediation, introspection – needcurricular and especially meta-curricular interactions

• Intellectual inspiration

– Personal contact with the world’s best

• A strong education is about acquisition of perspectives, of analytic problem solving skills, not just acquisition of knowledge

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Contribute in the chat space.

• Can MOOCs (or SPOCs) enhance the connection

between:

– faculty and students

– the resident experience and the global community?

•

Can MOOCs (or SPOCs) facilitate educationalchange? Can they improve learning rather than

just automating it?

POLLS

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PROVIDING IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK

• Interspersed “finger exercises”

– Reinforces concepts at time of acquisition

– Link to other material

– Mine data to find gaps inknowledge

• Range of tools for automated

assessment• Peer assessment can augment

learning experience

• Opportunity to direct learnerto discussion forums

•Early evaluations showimproved learning

• Will not work for alldisciplines?

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• Dashboard of online

activity provides

guidance on

classroom

interactions

• Mining data can

illuminate gaps in

presentation of concepts

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AUTOMATED ASSESSMENT PROVIDES

GUIDANCE TO INSTRUCTORS



• Online

discussionforums allowstudents tointeract

– Enhances

learningthroughexplanation

• Opportunitiesfor directed

discussionbetweeninstructor andclass

ENABLING A DIFFERENT KIND OF DISCUSSION

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• Active

exploration of

dynamic,

complex

systems

VISUALIZATIONS

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• Allow students to explore concepts in “lab” setting

on their schedule and location – Does not provide direct lab skills, but enables exploration

SIMULATIONS

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• What is an effective

class discussion

when participants

are global?

– Climate change

– Copyright law

– Development policies

– Technology import

ENGAGING A GLOBAL DISCUSSION

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POLL:

• On a scale of 1-10, to what degree do you

feel your online campus programs offer

personalized learning?

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• Mine data to create

“amazon.edu”

– Hints generated based

on other students paths,

current learner’s

performance

• Mine data to extract

“typical” solutions

– Link to misconceptions,material for exploration

PERSONALIZED LEARNING

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POLL:

• How is online learning taken into

consideration when developing plans for

campus learning spaces? (short answer)

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• What does the

classroom of thefuture include?

– Is “chalk and talk”relevant?

• What does thedormitory of thefuture include?

–

Should it includespaces for exploration,for collaboration, forremote access?

BROADER IMPACT ON THE CAMPUS

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HIGHER EDUCATION IS FACING A CHALLENGE

• Today’s students are a different generationof learners

• Online tools are changing the game

• New modes of communication create newopportunities for community building

• This is both a challenge and an opportunity

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