Anthony G. PiccianoCUNY Graduate Center

Blended Learning Meets MOOCs: Education’s Digital Future

presentation at Pace University March 2013

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Presentation Outline

.Introduction

.Teaching and Learning in 2012 – Scenarios

.Blended Learning

.Blending with Pedagogical Purpose

.Enter the MOOCs

.Education’s Digital Future

.Questions

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Teaching and Learning in 2013 –

Different Scenarios!

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Teaching and Learning in 2013 –

Different Scenarios!

Blended Learning Conceptualization

ConventionalFace to Face Classroom

Fully

Online

Blended

Source: Picciano, A.G, & Dzuiban, C. (2007). Blended learning: Research perspectives. Needham, MA: The Sloan Consortium.http://www.sloan-c.org/publications/books/index.asp

Synthesis/ Evaluation

(Assignments/Assessment) Papers, Tests, Student Presentations (PPT, Youtube), E-Portfolios

Blending with Pedagogical Purpose: A Multimodal Model

Reflection

(Blog,Journal)

Collaboration/Student Generated Content

(Wiki, Mobile Tech)

Social/Emotional (F2F)

Dialectic/Questioning

(Discussion Board)

Content

(LMS/CMS/Media/

Games/MUVE)

Blending with

Purpose

Source: Picciano (2009).

Blending with Purpose – The Multimodal Model

Synthesis/ Evaluation (Assignments/Assessment) Papers, Tests, Student Presentations (PPT, Youtube), E-Portfolios

Reflection

(Blog,Journal)

Collaboration/Student Generated Content

(Wiki, Mobile Tech)

Social/Emotional (F2F)

Dialectic/Questioning

(Discussion Board)

Blended

Ecosystem

Content (LMS/CMS/Media/ Games/MUVE)

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Blended Learning as Ecosystem

As blended learning matures and develops, it is evolving into a seamless, organic environment or ecosystem

It is the artful design of a teaching and learning experience that leverages instruction, technology, administrative and support services, into a natural experience for learner and teacher.

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Enter the MOOCs – Massive Open Online Courses

.The term MOOC is used for the first time in 2008 at the U. of Manitoba.

.Sebastian Thrun offers a MOOC in 2011 at Stanford University and 160,000 students enroll.

.MOOC consortia/companies (Udacity, edX, Coursera) are formed.

.Millions of students are now enrolling every year in MOOCs.

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MOOCs - Pros and Cons!

Pros

Worldwide student access to courses and materials  Scalability will drive down higher education costs  

Convenience for adults/ career development Interesting uses of data and learning analytics

Cons

Taking a course is not equivalent to an education

Some MOOCs are poorly designed and lack substantive interaction

High attrition rates (as much as 90%) Financial sustainability (most MOOCs are free). 

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." – Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943

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The Future of Technology

- Easy to Get it Wrong!

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." – Ken Olson, president, Chairman Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

"640K ought to be enough memory for anybody." – Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft, 1981

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The Future – Higher Education

Source: U.S. Department of Education - NCES (January 2013). Projections of Education Statistics to 2012.

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Non-Traditional Students are Now Traditional!

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, “Fall Enrollment Survey” (IPEDS-EF:94–99), and Spring 2001 through Spring 2009; Enrollment in Degree-Granting Institutions Model, 1980–2008; and U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Current Population Reports, "Social and Economic Characteristics of Students," various years. (This table was prepared February 2010.)

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The Future - One Size Does Not Fit All!

.Different strokes for different folks.

.Different types of schools will approach Blended Learning and MOOCs differently.

.Different programs/disciplines/courses will approach Blended Learning and MOOCs differently.

.Different students will approach Blended Learning and MOOCs differently.

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The Future – Allen & Seaman Survey of Chief Academic Officers (N=2,820)

Source: Allen, I.E. & Seaman, J. (2013).

This year’s survey finds only 2.6 percent report they currently offer MOOCs and slightly less than ten percent (9.4%) have plans to offer them.

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The Future

Source: Allen, I.E. & Seaman, J. (2013).

When examined by Carnegie classification, it is the research universities (Doctoral/Research institutions) that are in the lead. They are almost twice as likely to beoffering MOOCs or planning to offer MOOCs (9.8% vs. the next highest of 4.5%for Specialized institutions in offerings and 21.4% vs. the next highest of 11.8% forMaster’s level institutions for planning).

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The Future

Source: Allen, I.E. & Seaman, J. (2013).

Overall, academic leaders are split in their opinions about MOOCs as a sustainablemethod for offering courses with 27.8 percent agreeing, 27.0 percent disagreeing,and most Chief Academic Officers (45.2%) neutral.

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The Future – Large Lecture Courses

Will Pave the Way!

.Put lecture part of the course in online/MOOC environment

.Put discussion/recitation part of the course in blended environment.

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The Future – MOOCs -> OCs

.San Jose State University enters into Agreement with Udacity to develop remedial and introductory courses (2013-2016).

.Courses will be limited to 300 students.

.Tuition will be $150. per course.

.Provision for faculty involvement in a blended format.

.Efforts will be made to overcome the biggest failure of MOOCs — their 90 percent dropout rate.

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Summary/Questions?

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ReferencesAllen, I.E. & Seaman, J. (2013). Changing course: Ten years of tracking online education in the United States. Wellesley, MA: Babson College Survey Research Group.  Knowles, M., Holton, E.F., & Swanson, R. (1998). The adult learner. Woburn, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann.

Lin, L., Cranton, P., & Bridglall, B. (2005). Psychological Type and Asynchronous Written Dialogue in Adult Learning.Teachers College Record Volume 107 Number 8, 2005, p. 1788-1813http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 12096, Date Accessed: 1/25/2008 3:15:54 PM

Picciano, A.G. & Dzuiban, C. (2007). Blended learning: Research perspectives. Needham, MA: The Sloan Consortium.

Picciano, A.G. (2009). Blending with purpose: The multimodal model. Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology, 5(1). Kent, Oh: Kent State University.

U.S. Department of Education - NCES (January 2013). Projections of Education Statistics to 2012.

U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, “Fall Enrollment Survey” (IPEDS-EF:94–99), and Spring 2001 through Spring 2009; Enrollment in Degree-Granting Institutions Model, 1980–2008; and U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Current Population Reports, "Social and Economic Characteristics of Students," various years. (This table was prepared February 2010.)