August 2013 | Overview & Update

Contents

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Setting the Stage: Higher education today

Progress Report: Accomplishments

Faculty & student feedback

Looking Forward: Phased work plan

Financial sustainability

Opportunities

[ Setting the Stage ]

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• global appetite for knowledge

• faculty interest in improving teaching and learning

• enabling technologies and tech-savvy students

• cost pressures demand new education delivery models

Setting the Stage | Higher Education Today

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This is an important time in higher education:

Setting the Stage | What Is edX?

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May 2012

Harvard and MIT joined together to launch edX with three goals:

1. expand access to high quality education worldwide

2. improve teaching and learning on campus

3. advance our understanding of how students learn through research

• not for profituniversity-led and run

• open sourceplatform for MOOCs

• collaborativexConsortium partnership

• financial sustainabilityrevenue models

Setting the Stage | What Is edX?

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edX was founded upon shared principles:

people a start up organization in Kendall Square

portal 1M+ global online learners 70% non-U.S. from 192 countries

platform authoring tool for faculty course development & delivery

Setting the Stage | What Is edX?

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edX delivers online courses through:

1. expand access to education

2. improve teaching & learning on campus

3. advance our understanding of how students learn through research

Setting the Stage | What Is HarvardX?

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HarvardX shares the same goals as edX:

instructional expertise 16 course fellows & producers

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research fellows

5 creative

video professionals

professional services 15 support staff with expertise in areas

such as pedagogy,

media, technology, and

copyright law

studios and space 2 campus video studios

4th & 5th floors of 125 Mt Auburn

Setting the Stage | What Is HarvardX

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HarvardX supports faculty innovation in teaching:

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Setting the Stage | What Is HarvardX

university & schoolsAlan Garber [Provost, edX board co-chair]Michael D. Smith [Dean, Faculty of Arts & Sciences]Katie Lapp [Executive Vice President]James Ryan [Dean of Graduate School of Education]Anne Margulies [VP & CIO]

facultyRob Lue [Faculty Director, FAS]

13 faculty members on the Faculty CommitteeAndrew Ho [Research Chair, GSE]

14 faculty members on the Research Committee

staffSamantha Earp [Interim Executive Director]Annie Valva [Course Development Manager]Producers & creative professionals

HarvardX is a University-level, faculty-led endeavor:

[ Video ]

Progress Report

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• delivered 6 open coursesCS50x, “Intro to CS”PH207x, “Health in Numbers”PH278x, “Health & Environment”CB22x, “Ancient Greek Hero”ER22x, “Justice”HLS1x, “Copyright”

• engaged global learners400,000+ enrolled students

• announced 15 new courses 10 Harvard schoolshumanities, health, science, education, physics, poetry, government, medicine

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Progress Report | Accomplishments

goal 1: expand access to knowledge

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Progress Report | Accomplishments

• pushed innovations on edX1st humanities course – Heroeshighest enrolled course – CS50x, 120,000+most number of courses and modules

• catalyzed education at Harvard59 faculty are active in teaching or planning3 faculty town halls & a joint Harvard-MIT national summit

120 students & staff creating content • experimented on campus

CopyrightX ran two versions of the course to test traditional vs. non-traditional case methods of learningHSPH is using HarvardX courses to redesign their core curriculum and deliver their first fully online degree program

goal 2: improve teaching & learning on campus

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Progress Report | Accomplishments

goal 3: advance our understanding of how students learn through research

• built a team of research fellowscreating a community at Harvard and beyond around online learning research

• published highly cited paper“Studying Learning in the Worldwide Classroom: Research into edX’s first MOOC” (Breslow, Ho)

explores correlations of background and capabilities to achievement and

persistence

examines relationships between student interactions with content and level of success

• embedded research questions in course development• What motivates students to learn and persist?• What helps students retain knowledge?• How can we assess what students have learned?

“When faculty teach courses they themselves create, they tend to teach better. The very act of engaging in this process is energizing.”

William Kirby, T.M. Chang Professor of China Studies and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at HBS, co-teaching SW22x: “China.”

What Harvard faculty are saying:

Progress Report | Faculty and Student Feedback

“It feels like all of a sudden having capacity to do all the things I’ve imagined.”

Elisa New, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature and instructor for AI12x: Poetry in America

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“I stood in my bean patch in West Virginia today and was humbled to think I was able to take part in this learning experience with participants from all over the world. Please allow me to express my ‘kharin ekhein’. (Hope I said that correctly!)”

Comment on HeroesX

What students are saying:

Progress Report | Faculty and Student Feedback

“The community and sense of connection between not only the 120,000 students worldwide taking the course online, but the hundreds sitting in Harvard’s Sanders Theatre, really defined the experience for me.”

Comment on CS50x

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[ Looking Forward ]

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Startup PhaseAY2013

Experimental Phase AY2014-2016

Application PhaseAfter AY2016

HarvardX has and is implementing a phased approach:

Looking Forward | Phased Work Plan

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Residential & Classroom Extension & Professional Open Access & Online

Format traditional campus distance learning & online programs

Online only

Pedagogy immersive lectureflipped classroomsnew learning tools

onlinehybrid

MOOCs + SPOCsexperimental pedagogy

Learners Full time, admitted students Non-traditional students & professionals

Global audience of serious learners

Course Elements Full Harvard learning experience, including labs, extracurriculars, and residential life

Harvard content & brandID validationTA supportProctored exams

edX brandLight ID checkMachine grading

Credentials Harvard creditHarvard degrees

Harvard Certificates, credits, and varied degrees

edX “completion” certificateHX “mastery” certificates

Enrollment 10,000 (admissions-based) 20,000+ 1,000,000+

Revenue Harvard tuition $500 (per course) and$12,000 (degree)

Free to $50 to $150

Built with support from HarvardXPowered by edX and other platforms

Monetized through DCE + professional schools

Looking Forward | Revenue Models

HarvardX is actively experimenting with revenue models:

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course developmentproduction staff, technology, equipment, & space

researchpedagogical experts and assessment tools

core infrastructureoffice space, administrative staff, and IT

Goal: $xxx (part of the broader FAS “leading and learning” and University “teaching and learning” priorities).

Looking Forward | Opportunities

HarvardX fundraising priorities:

[ Thanks ]

Learn more and take courses:

edx.orgharvardx.harvard.edu