MOOCs & EdTechWhat’s happening and why should I care?

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?

1. What’s the cheese with EdTech?

Huge IncumbentsDisruption…….???........Profit

Underinvested IndustryMisalignment between industry size

and investment & exits

98m extra university students within 12 years

- UNESCO

Lifelong learningGlobal competition for jobs

Rising cost of traditional education

Digital vocationYep, that’s the same image

2. What is this MOOC thing?

Udacity: Introduction to AIPro b a b l y t h e fi r s t M O O C

Before MOOCs

Why all the hype?

MOOCs will kill universities!OMG Stanford for free!

Probably the combination of high quality lectures, good branding, good

production.

3. What’s really happening?

MOOCs are just one part

Empowering Teachers

UdemyFedora

ThinkificFloqq

Tech Training

Udacity NanodegreesTreehouse

Codeacademy

MaprHootsuite U

Language Learning

DuolingoRosetta Stone

Hybrid Models

Khan AcademyCoding Bootcamps

Others

StackexchangeQuora

Project Based LearningTutoring/Mentoing

4. Where’s this going?

FITS YOUR LIFELearn ing

Content is (almost) free

Content is adaptiveKnewton

Content is immersive

Support, help and accreditationPremium features

DON’T REQUIRE A DEGREEEmployers

EXPECT LIFELONG LEARNINGb u t

5. What’s missing?

AssessmentYou like multiple choice right?

Content CuratingWho likes consistency?

Social stuffPeople learn best together

Studyroom, Edmodo, Q&As

AccreditationHow do employers understand?

Mozilla Open Badges, Pearson Vue Acclaim, Degreed, Accredible

alan@accredible.com