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Reflection on Teaching and Learning: From Books to MOOCs and Beyond Mei-Yan Lu, Ph.D., Department of Educational Leadership College of Education, San Jose State University San Jose, California, U.S.A. [email protected]

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Page 1: Reflection on Teaching and Learning: From Books to MOOCs and Beyond Mei-Yan Lu, Ph.D., Department of Educational Leadership College of Education, San Jose

Reflection on Teaching and Learning: From Books to MOOCs and BeyondMei-Yan Lu, Ph.D., Department of Educational Leadership

College of Education, San Jose State UniversitySan Jose, California, [email protected]

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Agenda• Quick audience survey• Challenges in California• Why MOOCs?• Experiment of MOOCs at San Jose State

University (SJSU), spring 2013• Beyond content delivery• Moving forward• Discussion • Q&A

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Where is San Jose, California?

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San Jose, California – The Heart of Silicon Valley

• South of San Francisco• San Jose is the 3rd largest city in California, 10th largest

city in the United States• Population in 2011: 967,487 residents• California State University is the largest university

system in the United States, and most affordable university with 23 campuses and seven off-campus centers, almost 450,000 students, and 47,000 faculty and staff.

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Quick audience surveyAre you…

• K-12 education (e.g., School Principal/CEO, Administrator, Teachers)

• Ministry of Education

• Higher Education (e.g., Professor/Faculty, Dean, Administrator, Graduate student)

• Parent of teenagers

• have multiple roles

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Quick audience surveyHow long you have been

working in education?

• 1-5 years

• 6-10 years

• 11-20 years

• 21-30 years

• 31 years and beyond

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Quick audience surveyHave you heard about MOOCs

(Massive Open Online Courses)

• Yes

• No

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Quick audience surveyHave you taken MOOCs

courses…• Yes

• No

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Reflection on teaching and learning

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Classroom is changing

Credit: Dr. Charles Y. Cheng, Broadlearning Inc., Hong Kong (2011)

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Classroom is changing

Credit: Dr. Charles Y. Cheng, Broadlearning Inc., Hong Kong (2011)

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Classroom is changing

Credit: Dr. Charles Y. Cheng, Broadlearning Inc., Hong Kong (2011)

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Classroom is changing

Credit: Dr. Charles Y. Cheng, Broadlearning Inc., Hong Kong (2011)

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Classroom is changing

Credit: Dr. Charles Y. Cheng, Broadlearning Inc., Hong Kong (2011)

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Classroom is changing

Credit: Dr. Charles Y. Cheng, Broadlearning Inc., Hong Kong (2011)

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Something remaining the same

Credit: Dr. Charles Y. Cheng, Broadlearning Inc., Hong Kong (2011)

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Technology in the Classroom

Credit: Dr. Charles Y. Cheng, Broadlearning Inc., Hong Kong (2011)

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Challenges…• We tend to teach

the way we were taught.

• We tend to teach the way we learn.

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Challenges in higher education in California

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More challenges in higher education in the United States

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Challenges in higher education in California

• Soaring tuition

• High demand in college enrollment

• Low graduation rate in state universities

• In the past 5 years, to graduate with an undergraduate degree from San Jose State, it typically takes ______ years.

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Looking for silver bullet to solve problems in higher education

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Is MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) the silver bullet

for higher education?

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San Jose State University (SJSU) and Udacity Pilot Project, Spring 2013

• California Governor Jerry Brown asked Udacity to help to improve access to higher education

• Udacity supported three classes created by professors at SJSU

• Developmental Math (entry-level math, Algebra review), College Algebra and Elementary Statistics.

• Why these three courses were selected?

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San Jose State University and Udacity MOOCs Pilot Study

• Developmental math class: only 29% passed, versus 80% for in the face-to-face class

• College Algebra: 44% versus 74% passed in the face-to-face Algebra course

• Elementary Statistics: 51% students passed versus 74% in the same in-person, face-to-face Statistics course

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What are the possible causes to contribute the lesser favorable result?

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What was missing?

• Press release answer.

• A Course Design Strategy (Instructional Design).

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Lessons Learned from Udacity & San Jose University. 

• 1. Analyze learner and learner contexts.

• 2. Establish clear and concise assignment guidelines and expectations.

• 3. Establish upfront the channels and avenues of communication. Create instructor presence and a sense of community where students will be more likely to feel comfortable asking for help.

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Moving Forward --

• “Failure is the mother of success.”

• ~ Chinese Proverb

• “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”

~ Thomas A. Edison

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From parents’ perspectives

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Summer of 2013

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• Dennis Yang, President of Udemy, a MOOC provider has suggested that MOOCs are in the midst of a hype cycle.

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Education is beyond content delivery…

• The culture aspects

• The relationship/mentorship between instructor and the student

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Questions and answers

Dr. Mei-Yan LuDepartment of Educational Leadership San Jose State UniversitySan Jose, California, USA [email protected]

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What is instructional design?• Usually, this is an one full semester

course.

• Let’s have an compressed experience…

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Instructional Design: ADDIE model