moocs and developmental education: to infinity and beyond!

MOOCs and Developmen

tal Education: To Infinity

and Beyond!

Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President, Curriculum Education

What a MOOC is and what a MOOC is notBryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President, Curriculum Education

Are MOOCS the future?

• Mass adoption of distance learning to leverage expert resources.

• Individualized just in time learning approaches

• Transition to hybrid classes with less frequent campus meetings

Pew Internet and American Life Projecthttp://www.pewinternet.org/topics/Future--‐of--‐the--‐internet.aspx

Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President, Curriculum Education

http://studentforce.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/the-numbers-on-moocs-popularity-effectiveness-participation/

Lots of questions

Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President, Curriculum Education

Udacity Coursera

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Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President, Curriculum Education

Udacity

“Our mission is to bring accessible,

affordable, engaging, and highly effective

higher education to the world”

www.udacity.com

Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President, Curriculum Education

Udacity demo

Visualizing Algebra

Intro to Physics

Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President, Curriculum Education

Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President, Curriculum Education

Why?

MOOC ContentThe Introductory Algebra Review MOOC will cover the first five math modules:

• DMA 010 – Operations with Integers

• DMA 020 – Fractions and Decimals

• DMA 030 – Proportions/Ratios Rates/Percentages

• DMA 040 – Expressions, Linear Equations, Linear Inequalities

• DMA 050 – Graphs and Equations of Lines

Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President, Curriculum Education

Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President, Curriculum Education

Wake Tech

High school student

Diagnostic test

Complete MOOC

DEM module

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Retest and enter college math or DEM

College math

MOOC as supplemen

tal

DEM MOOC Theory of Change

Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President, Curriculum Education

Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President, Curriculum Education

TEAMWORK

Wake Tech

faculty =Content and

student learnin

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Udacity develop

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Technical

expertise

DEMMOOC

Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President, Curriculum Education

Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President, Curriculum Education

Progress to date

Early lessons

Introductory Algebra Review

It’s a nice idea, but….

Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President, Curriculum Education

Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President, Curriculum Education

Think, Pair, Share

What are the technical barriers to implementation?

What are the campus climate/cultural barriers?

How do you see MOOCs being used on your campus?

Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President, Curriculum Education

Monetizing

Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President, Curriculum Education

Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President, Curriculum Education

Think, Pair, Share

What are some options for monetizing

MOOCs on your campus to

support widespread utilization?

Bryan K. Ryan, Senior Vice President, Curriculum Education

www.waketech.edu search MOOC@wakegrants