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== = Coastline Academic Senate - Subcommittee on MOOCS =

Welcome to the Coastline College MOOCs Wiki, an archive of activities, meetings, information and links from the MOOCS (Massive Online Open Courses) Subcommittee of the Coastline Academic Senate. **// NOTE: //** If you post a link to an item please provide a brief summary. Thanks! The most recent items are on top. Anyone can access this site at http://coastline-moocs.wikispaces.com.


 * **2/6/2014** **-** Fred Feldon shared a link to the blog Moocs.com that covers news about MOOCs, edited by Zachary Davis, a producer for HarvardX, a spin-off of EdX. In today's post he said what drew him to MOOCs was that he could get Stanford-level objective content for free. The most surprising finding of his research is that the biggest user base for MOOCs is males over the age of 26 with advanced degrees, an "already over-served market." Even though the percentage of students from the world's poorest countries is low, he said, it sill amounts to tens of thousands of students who might not otherwise have such educational opportunities.


 * **12/11/2013** **-** Scott Davis shared an article, "After Setbacks, Online Courses Are Rethought" from the N.Y. Times. Even the loudest critics of MOOCs do not expect them to fade away. More likely, they will morph into many different shapes.


 * **11/19/2013** **-** Fred Feldon shared an article, "The King of MOOCs Abdicates the Throne" where Sebastian Thrun, godfather of the massive online open course, spreads a plastic tarp on the floor, nudged his most famous educational invention into the center, and is about to pull the trigger. He admits his company (Udacity) courses are often a "lousy product."


 * **10/8/2013** **-** Marilyn Fry shared an upcoming webcast, "MOOCs and Copyright Management for Online Courses" offered by Academic Impressions, December 6, 2013. When integrating MOOCs into curricula institutions must carefully consider copyright issues suchas ownership, fair use, and the TEACH Act.


 * **10/6/2013** **-** Fred Feldon shared an article, "It's Time to Redirect the Conversation About MOOCs" by David Cillay, Vice President, Washington State University, who suggests, "It's time to for those of us who have been leaders in traditional online education to wrestle the microphone away from the for-profits and the late-comers and begin to lead once again."


 * **9/1/2013** **-** Fred Feldon shared an issue of the Udacity blog about San Jose State University Summer 2013 math MOOC results. Clearly, there were lessons learned about varying content, providing support and creating engagement which made all the difference.


 * **8/19/2013** **-** Fred Feldon shared a link to a Stephen Colbert interview with Anant Agarwal, president of EdX, "Colbert Report Explains MOOCs." He bravely asks questions others are afraid to. Check it out!


 * **8/15/2013** **-** Fred Feldon shared article, California Puts MOOC Bill On Ice from Chronicle of Higher Education. Legislation in California originally aimed at getting state colleges to award credit for MOOCs and other offerings from nonuniversity providers has been shelved for at least a year. Sen. Darrell Steinberg changed his mind after seeing Cal States, UCs and CCs are all producing plans for developing online access. He wants to see how those plans materialize and then evaluate their impact.


 * **7/24/2013** **-** Fred Feldon shared articles, Udacity Project on 'Pause' and Udacity's Lessons Learned where San Jose State University talked about discontinuing their developmental Math MOOCs because of poor success and retention rates. Big news in the MOOC world!


 * **7/10/2013** **-** __ **Fred Feldon signs up for another MOOC****!** __ In April, 2013, edX joined with Stanford to produce OpenEdX which gives universities all the EdX source code! The class is EDUC115N How to Learn Math and runs from July 15 - Sep 27. 35,000 students are enrolled. //(Comment after the course is over: One of the best courses I've ever taken!)//


 * **7/5/2013** **-** Fred Feldon shared an 11-minute video Caltech MOOC Report April 2013 featuring 4 MOOCs taught by 4 professors and how they were able to enforce rigor and quality and make the "Caltech experience" available to a wider audience. A total of 300 Caltech students were enrolled along with over 300,000 additional students from around the world. The professors deemed the courses "successful" and "the wave of the future" but only 7,000 or about 2.3% of the online students received certificates of completion!


 * **6/26/2013** **-** Fred Feldon shared an article, Are MOOCs Really the Worst Threat to the Future of Universities? by Cathy Davidson, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University and Co-Founder of HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboration). The author believes the excitement over MOOCs distracts us from other, far more serious problems and exciting possibilities for open, online and classroom learning as well as a society that is under-funding public education.


 * **6/20/2013** **-** Fred Feldon's MOOC uses Mozilla Badge for students that complete the course with an 80% average or better. eCampus News and the White House Office of Science and Technology both predict that "digital badges" are the future for students to "showcase their skills and find meaningful educational and employment opportunities." Uh, oh. Think that credit for MOOCs is the end all, be all? Think again!


 * **6/17/2013** **-** __** Fred Feldon signed up for a MOOC! **__ It uses CourseSites a Blackboard-based program. It's a four-week math class which started June 3, created and taught by a team of professors from Cuyahoga Community College (Ohio) with a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. There are about 500 students enrolled. //(Comment after the course is over: One of the worst courses I've ever taken!)//

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 * **6/4/2013 -** A very interesting (and thought-provoking) blog and discussion regarding MOOCs: "We're All to Blame for MOOCs" in //The Chronicle of Higher Education//.
 * **6/2/2013** **-** Fred Feldon shared a website MOOC News & Reviews, an online publication devoted to "thoughtful critique of individual MOOC courses and discussion of the evolving MOOC landscape."


 * **5/20/2013** **-** Pedro Gutierrez shared an article on possible MOOC Monetization strategies.


 * ** 5/11/2013 ** - Pedro Gutierrez shared an article on MOOC Completion/Success rates "Not Staying the Course"


 * ** 5/7/2013 **- The Committee had its second meeting Tuesday, May 7, at 2:30pm following Academic Senate. The Committee discussed the following: (1) As an alternative to MOOCs, to grant wider access to Coastline classes, we should examine and possibly expand our Credit by Exam option; (2) Find out more about the ESL dept. which is using //CourseSmart// to develop their own course; (3) Look at developing or adopting a Basic Skills MOOC; and (4) assigned Pedro Gutierrez, Rick Lockwood and Fred Feldon to represent the Coastline Acdemic Senate on the district-wide MOOC task force.


 * ** 5/6/2013 **- Cheryl Stewart shared information on a webinar, "MOOCs and the Completion Agenda: Lessons in Learning, Assessment and Application," given by the American Council on Education (ACE) on Tuesday, May 28, 10:00am.


 * ** 5/3/2013 **- Chau Tran shared an article, "MOOC Skeptics at the Top" from Inside Higher Ed giving the results from a Gallup survey of 889 college presidents. Many of them were initially excited about MOOCs but now feel "they've been over-hyped as a simplistic solution" to many problems.

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 * ** 5/1/2013 **- Scott Davis shared an article, "Colleges Adapt Online Courses to Ease Burden" from the New York Times. In response to abysmal course completion rates, San Jose State University supplements MOOCs with innovations such as 24/7 online mentors and live classroom sessions focusing on small group projects and discussions. "Academic innovation always comes with the possibility of failure," says Mohammad Qayoumi, the university's president. "If it doesn't work the first time we'll figure out what went wrong and do better."
 * ** 4/30/2013 **- Fred Feldon shared a link to the latest Amendments of Calif SB 520 Bill for Online Courses based mostly on "push back" from faculty.

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 * ** 4/30/2013 **- Pedro Gutierrez shared a link for Canvas, an open source LMS, and a course called "Academia and the MOOC"
 * ** 4/29/2013 - **Cheryl Stewart shared an announcment regarding a MOOC webinar:
 * =====**// Open Education, MOOCs, and Student Access //**//Tuesday, April 30, 2013 – 10:00 am – 11:00 am PDT//=====
 * Go to CCCConfer to connect or call 1-888-886-3951 and enter PIN code 354554

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 * ** 4/28/2013 - ** Pedro Gutierrez shared an article, "MOOCs and Libraries" from the MIT Libraries publication Bi-blio-tech.
 * ** 4/27/2013 - ** Fred Feldon shared an article, "MOOCs and Megatrends: A Prediction Comes True," from the Evolllution (LifeLong Learning Environment). Ever wondered why Stanford plays such a prominent role in MOOCs? Stanford President John Hennessy says (regarding the "tsunami" in higher education), "I can't tell you exactly how it will break but my goal is to surf it, not to just stand there."


 * ** 4/25/2013 - ** Cheryl Chapman shared an article, "New MOOC Provider Fosters Peer Interaction," from The Chronicle of Higher Education. //NovoEd// was created by a Stanford professor and his PhD student, who stated, "Online learning shouldn't lose the social, collaborative aspects of learning." An entrepreneurship course in March, 2012, had 80,000 students in 150 countries working in teams on projects and business models.


 * ** 4/23/2013 - ** The committee had its first meeting at the College Center in Fountain Valley. Present were Cheryl Chapman, Fred Feldon, Pedro Gutierrez, Noha Kabaji, Rick Lockwood (**Chair**), Cheryl Stewart, Chau Tran, and Michael Warner. We agreed to address the following topics: (1) How is credit granted or accepted for MOOCs and how can we be assured of the academic quality and integrity of a MOOC? (2) Can MOOC courses and platforms be used by faculty as supplemental instruction for a Coastline College course? (3) Can Coastline faculty create and offer a MOOC and if so, how do we prepare students to be successful in a MOOC? And (4) Select three committee members to represent Coastline on the district task force for MOOCs. Our next meeting will be Tuesday, May 7, 2013, following Academic Senate.


 * ** 4/22/2013 - ** Noha Kabaji recommended a CCCConfer webinar entitled, "Open Education, MOOCs, and Student Access: A Panel Discussion" that takes place on April 30, 2013. Three leaders in the field share their thoughts on this revolution in higher education.


 * ** 4/19/2013 - ** Scott Davis shared an L.A. Times article, "Hitting the MOOCs Instead of the Books". A newspaper reporter joins a public health MOOC taught by a professor from UC Irvine with 16,000 students enrolled.


 * ** 4/11/2013 - ** Fred Feldon shared an L.A. Times article, "Cal State to Offer Online Engineering Course at 11 More Campuses". The course was created by MIT and was offered by San Jose State in collaboration with EdX. The online course incorporated classroom discussion led by professors; the pass rate shot to 91% compared to 55% for the traditional course. Earlier this year the university partnered with Udacity to offer low-cost, online classes in high-demand entry-level math classes.