How MOOCs help to enhance your skill and career
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This document discusses Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and how they can be used to enhance skills and careers. It defines MOOCs as online courses that are free, open to anyone with internet access, and have large enrollments of tens of thousands of students. The document outlines benefits of MOOCs like continuous learning at your own pace with rich course content from top universities. It provides examples of MOOC providers and popular courses in fields like IT, law, and finance. It also discusses challenges of MOOCs like low completion rates and issues with grading and engagement without in-person interaction.
How MOOCs help to enhance your skill and career
- 1. How you can use “MOOC” (MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE) to enhance your skills and career Govind Sharma blog.simplycareer.net
- 2. edX What is a MOOC?
- 3. What are MOOCS? Massive Open Online Course Typically free and credit-less Being offered by elite universities through partnerships with MOOC providers (such as Coursera) Open to anyone with an Internet connection Very large and often have a student enrollment so big (as many as 50,000 or more) that faculty cannot respond to everyone individually Designed to give students automatic or peer-generated feedback MOOCs are:
- 4. MOOC Benefits & Possibilities
- 5. MOOC and learning Why MOOC For continuous learning and improvements To learn at your own pace Cost effective method Rich course content, from top global institutes You can add new skills or enhance existing one Why learning Learn or Perish Need to remain prepared for current job or for the next job Organization prefer people opting continuous learning Adding skill is key, having comfort zone is dangerous
- 6. How MOOC helps Organisation may be selective while sending people for training Organisation may have budget constraint Organisation may not think you need additional training You may want to learn something, but budget is constraint You may be looking for job outside your organisation, but you are outdated to hire and cannot leave a “secured” job. Crisis are sometime beyond anticipation- so be prepared always.
- 7. Sample of MOOC Providers Apple iTunesU Canvas Class2Go Coursera CourseSites edX Google Course-Builder Khan Academy Udacity Udemy
- 8. MOOCs By-the-Numbers As of Today: Udacity had over 200,000 people signed up for its courses EDx: EdX had 370,000 students Coursera: Coursera had reached more than 1.7 million students
- 9. MOOC Goals MOOC Goals 1. Offer quality education to the most remote corners of the world. 2. Help people further their careers. 3. Help people expand intellectual and personal networks with strong communities.
- 10. MOOC Benefits & Possibilities Students can make global connections.
- 11. MOOC Benefits & Possibilities MOOCs will have an important impact in two ways: 1. Importing teaching (global reach of instructors and topics). 2. Freedom to chose your course at almost at nil cost
- 12. MOOC Benefits & Possibilities The Innovative University Christensen and Eyring Customize your education according to how you learn best! Without disrupting traditional brick and mortar schools!
- 13. MOOC Benefits & Possibilities MOOCs could cut the large costs of higher education, which in the US have increased by 360% above inflation since 1986.
- 14. In India In India, we lack quality education and training. Hardly handful institutes are worth in the quality Distance as well as conventional education qualities are not good, mostly outdated or costly
- 15. MOOC s regular conference/ training/ MDPs It is almost impossible for anybody to learn in one day conference If not utilized/ practiced immediately, most of the people forget what they have learnt – so there is no RoI on money individual and organisation put MOOCs are audio visual and participatory. It is a collaborative learning too.
- 16. What kind of courses available in MOOCs? Almost any course you want- from your personal interest to courses related to your career.
- 17. Examples- Courses for IT Software Defined Networking (Coursera) In this course, you will learn about software defined networking and how it is changing the way communications networks are managed, maintained, and secured. Mining Massive Datasets (Coursera) This class teaches algorithms for extracting models and other information from very large amounts of data. The emphasis is on techniques that are efficient and that scale well. There are 100 of such courses available
- 18. Example of MOOC courses for Legal The Governance of Nonprofit Organizations (Coursera)- State University of New York ContractsX: From Trust to Promise to Contract (edX)- from HarvardX English Common Law: Structure and Principles (Coursera)- University of London
- 19. For Finance Financial Analysis of Entrepreneurial Ideas (NovoEd) Financial Engineering and Risk Management Part I (Coursera)- Columbia University International Finance (MRUniversity)
- 20. Others How to Read Your Boss (and most of us fail in this )- The University of Nottingham How to Succeed at: Interviews (If you fail in above ) (FutureLearn)- The University of Sheffield
- 22. How to enroll for an MOOC course? Visit any of the following website: http://mooc.org/ https://www.coursera.org/ https://www.udacity.com/ https://www.futurelearn.com/ There are other websites too. Go, search and register for a programme you like
- 23. Questions Are all of these programmes free- in most of the cases yes, for few courses no. If you need a valid University certificate, then you need to pay Is there any timeline to complete the course- Yes, in the most of the cases. Few courses are without time limit to complete Do I need to complete specific day of time?- No, chose your own place, time and pace but complete within the deadline
- 24. Issues in the MOOC
- 25. MOOC Challenges Few typically stick through the duration of the class Engaging students without overwhelming them Student experiences and socializing are done virtually and without real-world tangibility Students must be responsible for their own learning Credential models are still emerging Grading is imperfect Cheating is a reality Completion rate is hardly 5%
- 26. The Future of MOOCs MOOCs are here to stay and evolving rapidly. Expectations and methods of presentation will likely standardize over time, becoming more consistent and predictable. Large classes may be used as outreach tools. Institutions may open their content to a wider audience and extend their reach within the community.
- 27. MOOC success stories How Katie Leonard got a job through MOOC http://moocs.com/index.php/mooc-stories-how-moocs-help- individuals-succeed/ How McAfee changed to MOOC for training and did turn around for its sales http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeannemeister/2013/08/13/how- moocs-will-revolutionize-corporate-learning-development/
- 28. How to Succeed in MOOC Do not opt too much courses, typically opt 1 or 2 course at a time Participate in the discussion with other students, that provides lot of insight and learning Remain self disciplined Decide what you want to learn and why Complete Assignments and re-read them
- 29. Conclusion MOOCs are good option as if you do not prepare yourself for the next level, you will perish Any questions??
Editor's Notes
- #4: The acronym MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Courses
- #5: Who wouldn’t want to study from the top academicians from the world’s most reputed institute at their own convenience and most of the time it is free.
- #8: Sample of MOOC Providers Here is a sample of some of the many for-profit and non-profit MOOC Providers offering courses today. Coursera, Udacity and edX are currently the leading providers. Apple iTunesU A service hosted by Apple that allows instructors to manage, distribute, and control access to audio and video content for students within a college using Apple's iTunes Store infrastructure. Canvas Features a well-organized listing of all current classes and the institutions that offer them. Is open-source, meaning that you can grab the code base for free and run it on your very own server. Class2Go Stanford’s Class2Go is also open-source. Coursera Elite universities are partnering with Coursera at a fast pace. It now offers over 100 courses from 33 of the postsecondary education schools, including Princeton, Brown, Columbia, and Duke. Coursesites In 2011, Blackboard launched CourseSites, a free version of its Blackboard Learn and Collaborate software that could handle user created MOOCs. edX MIT partnered with Harvard, and the MITx platform has evolved into edX. Google Course-Builder Google’s open-source Course-Builder project lets anyone make their own learning resources, complete with scheduled activities and lessons, if they've got some skill with HTML and JavaScript. Khan Academy Supplies a free online collection of more than 3,900 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube that cover a wide variety of subjects. Udacity Udacity is the outgrowth of free computer science classes offered in 2011 through Stanford University and was co-founded by noted educator Sebastian Thrun. Udemy Most courses on Udemy are free, but some are paid. Paid courses typically range in price from $5 - $250.
- #9: MOOC Statistics more than 200,000 people have signed up for the courses offered through Udacity EdX had 370,000 students in its fall courses Coursera had reached more than 1.7 million students Co-founder Dr. Andrew Ng says that it is growing “faster than facebook.”
- #10: MOOC Goals Offer the best education possible to the most remote corners of the world. Help people further their careers and gain needed job skills. Help people expand their intellectual and personal networks with strong student communities. Learning can also happen incidentally through unknown knowledge that pops up as the course participants start to exchange notes. Some communities of students will even arrange face-to-face meetings to collaborate on a course.
- #11: Another benefit is that students can make global connections with their online peers. There have been amazing stories of students helping each other succeed even though they are on separate continents. Global networking is a plus for students and professionals alike.
- #12: Sir John Daniel claims that while MOOCs will have an important impact in two ways….Importing teaching and encouraging institutions to develop distinctive missions.
- #13: Authors Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring of the book, The Innovative University, agree that technology today allows us to customize our education according to learning styles – and that this can be done without harming traditional brick and mortar schools.
- #14: Could have a long-term effect of helping to cut the large costs of higher education, which in the US have increased by 360% above inflation since 1986. In India too, a good MDP (Management Development Programme) of 2-3 days costs almost 1 -1.5 lakhs.
- #26: MOOC Challenges Few typically stick through the duration of the class. Both MIT and Coursera have had to defend the large attrition rates in their courses. However, MIT noted that the number of students is so large that completion rates are comparable to the number that might take the course in 40 years. Engaging students in a manner which does not overwhelm them. Material should be organized in a way that guides students on how to take the course including Getting Started, working through the content, submitting assignments, participating in discussions, and completing assessments. Student experiences and socializing are done virtually and without real-world tangibility. This relates back to the basic conundrum of teaching online - How do we recreate the physical classroom experience? The dynamic of a MOOC could make some students uneasy, particularly those who expect or thrive on a high level of contact with the instructor. Students must be responsible for their own learning. Participants need to be able to self-regulate their learning and possibly give themselves a learning goal to achieve. Students can be ill-prepared for university-level work. If anyone can sign up and take a course, there are bound to be students who enroll in courses outside of their skill level. Credential models are also unproven. Certificates, badges, some form of credit? At Udacity, upon completing a course, students receive a certificate of completion indicating their level of achievement, signed by the instructors, at no cost. Grading is imperfect. Assignments that can’t be scored by an automated grader are pushing MOOC providers to get creative, especially in courses that involve writing and analysis. Peer-grading is still very much a work-in-progress. Classmates may lack a common knowledge base and educational background. Cheating is a reality. Coursera’s peer grading process has faced criticism due to instances of alleged plagiarism. Udacity and edX now offer proctored exams.
- #27: The Future of MOOCs The MOOC is an evolving model, presenting an intriguing set of challenges and opportunities for both instructors and students. As it evolves, expectations and methods of presentation will likely crystallize, becoming more consistent and more predictable. MOOCs with large enrollment may be used as outreach tools to boost future enrollment at an institution. The scale on which these courses can be taught and the diversity of students they serve will offer institutions new territory to explore in opening their content to a wider audience and extending their reach into the community.