Emerging Technologiesin Higher Education

Worthington ScrantonAdvisory Board MeetingSeptember 25, 2013

Griff LewisInstructional DesignerPenn State Worthington Scranton(570) 963-2654grl13@psu.edu

Instructional Design

StudentneedsSubject

Discipline

AssessmentInteraction

Size Deliverymethod

Tools Outcomes

Students

Instructional Delivery Methods

Resident Instruction

Distance Learning

Face to Face Hybrid

Conferencing Web

• Presentation Software• Clickers• Doceri

• ANGEL• Podcasting• Blogs

• Polycom• Adobe Connect

• ANGEL• MediaSite• Voicethread

*MOOCsWorld Campus

• Combination of classroom instruction with online tools–“Flipping the Classroom”

• Lecture podcasting with F2F classroom• Provide more interaction in class• Student led, active learning• Online Lecture review• Preliminary research data suggest student

improvement–Dr. Renee Bishop – BIOL110

Resident Instruction - Hybrid

• Multiple live classrooms – one instructor–Teleconferencing –audio/video

• Polycom – Penn State network–Eastern Alliance

• Business• Information Sciences and Technology

• Adobe Connect – Desktop conferencing–Both may be recorded for review

Distance Learning - Conferencing

• Scalable courses – 10 to 100,000 students– Student interaction through Course

Management System (ANGEL):• Discussion Boards• Assignment Drop Boxes• Online quizzes• Peer review• Instructor lecture notes and presentations• Additional web content through links

Distance Learning - Web

MOOCs

• Web-based• Massive scale

– 10,000+ students• Free and open to anyone• Top Tier Universities• The New York Times

called 2012 “The Year of the MOOC”

Massive Open Online Courses

MOOC Timeline

2000 - 2007 20092008 20112010 20132012

PSU World Campus(1998)

Online Learning Management Systems

Khan Academy(2007)

iTunesU(2007)

Stanford University:Intro to Artificial Intelligence(Oct 2011)

Udacity

Coursera

edX

Penn State University:Intro to Art(May 2013)

• Introduction to Art: Concepts & Techniques - PSU– 19,000 students enrolled– 6,175 students completed– 14,346 original artworks completed– 70% felt it was important that PSU offered

course– Highest number of students from U.S.– Students from India, Brazil, Canada

MOOC Statistics

More MOOC statistics• History of Rock – University of Rochester

– 28,000 students enrolled– 14,000 students participated– 3500 received certificate of completion– 315,000 video views– 70% students from outside U.S.– >50% of students have Bachelor’s degree or

higher

MOOC Discussion• Student numbers

– Enrolled vs. completed• Multiple providers

– Hundreds of partner universities– Academic rigor is high

• Non-credit bearing– Effect on higher-education institutions?– Coursera – “Verified Certificates for your

employees” program (Forbes)