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Ted O'Neill

Half an Hour: Multiple Lessons Learned from Implementing MOOC Environments at San Jose ... - 0 views

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pseudoMOOC SJSU

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  • Administrative considerations: be clear on the central goal of the MOOC, understand the continuum of F2F to online to MOOC, consider all stakeholders, align institutional resources and leaders, clarify business plan, consider legal issues, and prepare marketing and communications. (SD – There is no continuum - but saying there is one allows you to misrepresent a closed offline on-campus course as a MOOC)
    • Ted O'Neill
      Ted O'Neill on 21 Apr 13
       
      Wolf in MOOC's clothing.
  • Question: can you speak to compensation? Response: we offered $15K to one faculty member, broken into three installments.
    • Ted O'Neill
      Ted O'Neill on 21 Apr 13
       
      Hard to find info on direct compensation. Often done by profs as part of job. Does this imply an adjunct was teaching this so-called MOOC?
Ted O'Neill

California Universities Aggressively Expand Online Courses, Finds Failure Rates Drop | ... - 0 views

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mooc university crisis business model edX SJSU

shared by Ted O'Neill on 21 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • As California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom said on a press call for the edX announcement, “The old educational financing model frankly is no longer sustainable.”
    • Ted O'Neill
      Ted O'Neill on 21 Apr 13
       
      Does Newsome really think that? California's educational finance model was just fine until relatively recently. This is a political choice. Does anyone really believe that there is enough untapped productivity gain available in education through MOOCs? Fantasy.
  • Even edX President, Anant Agarwal, urged caution with the results. “I would not take this number to the bank,” he told me.
  • based on an unusually promising pilot course
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  • But, one-off experiments can often seem much more promising than reality, once they are brought to scale.
Ted O'Neill

Citing disappointing student outcomes, San Jose State pauses work with Udacity | Inside... - 0 views

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MOOC cMOOC Udacity SJSU fail

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  • After six months of high-profile experimentation, San Jose State University plans to “pause” its work with Udacity, a company that promises to deliver low-cost, high-quality online education to the masses.
    • Ted O'Neill
      Ted O'Neill on 22 Jul 13
       
      "Promises" but has now demonstrably failed to deliver.
  • San Jose State Provost Ellen Junn said disappointing student performance will prompt the university to stop offering online classes with Udacity this fall as part of a "short breather." Junn wants to spend the fall going over the results and talking with faculty members about the university’s online experimentation, which extends beyond the Udacity partnership and has proved somewhat controversial. She said the plan is to start working with Udacity again in spring 2014.
    • Ted O'Neill
      Ted O'Neill on 22 Jul 13
       
      Let's see how that reboot works. I doubt it comes back at the IIRC 150USD per pupil mark.
  • Preliminary findings from the spring semester suggest students in the online Udacity courses, which were developed jointly with San Jose State faculty, do not fare as well as students who attended normal classes -- though Junn cautioned against reading too much into the comparison, given the significant differences in the student populations.
    • Ted O'Neill
      Ted O'Neill on 22 Jul 13
       
      Right. Bad planning in selection of student groups for this program. MOOCs require autonomous, skilled learners.
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  • A copy of that internal presentation, which Junn repeatedly emphasized was preliminary, was obtained this week by Inside Higher Ed from the California Faculty Association. According to the preliminary presentation, 74 percent or more of the students in traditional classes passed, while no more than 51 percent of Udacity students passed any of the three courses.
    • Ted O'Neill
      Ted O'Neill on 22 Jul 13
       
      Pretty stark difference.
  • The courses were also put together in a rush. That’s apparently because of the timing of the deal with Udacity. The pilot project was announced a fortnight before classes started. (Like other similar deals, it was also the result of a no-bid contract.) The deal came together at the highest levels: On June 16, 2012, Brown e-mailed and called Thrun to talk about how Udacity could help California's higher education systems. “We need your help,” Brown said, according to Thrun. But, because of the haste, faculty were building the courses on the fly. Not only was this a “recipe for insanity,” Junn said, but faculty did not have a lot of time to watch how students were doing in the courses because the faculty were busy trying to finish them. It took about 400 hours to build a course, though the courses are designed to be reused.
    • Ted O'Neill
      Ted O'Neill on 22 Jul 13
       
      Incredibly bad pedagogy. That's what one gets when you allow the edtech bubble to drive educational decisions and take teaching out of the hands of faculty.
  • Another factor in the disappointing outcomes may have been the students themselves. The courses included at-risk students, high school students and San Jose State students who had already failed a remedial math course.
    • Ted O'Neill
      Ted O'Neill on 22 Jul 13
       
      Duh.
  • Student performance data from the San Jose State/Udacity courses are expected to be released in coming weeks.
    • Ted O'Neill
      Ted O'Neill on 22 Jul 13
       
      That original report leaked to IHED must be pretty damning if it will take weeks to edit it for release
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