Jean Talbot

EDUlib, MOOC, HEC Montréal, Sakai, #apereo13

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1. Jean talbot Professor, Information Technology Director, Center for Learning and Teaching Innovation HEC Montréal EDUlib: a MOOC Platform Using Sakai June 6, 2013 1
2. June 4 2013 Jean Talbot 2 • Business School • AACSB, EQUIS, AMBA • 12,000 registered students • 250 professors • Full range of programs (Undergraduate, MBA, M.Sc., Ph.D., continuing education) • Teaching mostly in French; however bilingual and trilingual undergraduate and English MBA
3. Outline • The MOOC phenomenon • EDUlib: our MOOC initiative – Rationale – Pedagogical approach • EDUlib and SAKAI • Likes & Challenges • Success factors • Questions June 4 2013 Jean Talbot 3
4. June 4 2013 Jean Talbot 4 “2012 The Year of the MOOC” New York Times
5. June 4 2013 Jean Talbot 5 USA
6. Fall 2011 June 4 2013 6 Jean Talbot
7. UDACITY (February 2012) June 4 2013 7 Jean Talbot
8. Coursera (April 2012) June 4 2013 8 Jean Talbot
9. EDx (April 2012) June 4 2013 9 Jean Talbot
10. International June 4 2013 Jean Talbot 10
11. FutureLearn (December 2012) June 4 2013 11 Jean Talbot
12. June 4 2013 Jean Talbot 12 Open2Study (March 2013)
13. June 4 2013 Jean Talbot 13 …has evolved in a complex ecosystem
14. Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
15. June 4 2013 Jean Talbot 15 Individual Initiatives
16. University of Amsterdam (January 2013) June 4 2013 Jean Talbot 16
17. EDUlib (October 2012) June 4 2013 Jean Talbot 17
18. June 4 2013 Jean Talbot 18 • Three courses in French • Introduction to Marketing (Fall 2012) • Understanding Financial Statements (Winter 2013) • Economic Problems and Policies (Spring 2013) • Three more next year • Conflict management • Entrepreneurship • Introduction to Marketing (repeat)
19. Why? • Important phenomenon that has the potential to be a disruptive innovation… so we just had to do it • 3 main reasons – Branding – Learning – Giving June 4 2013 Jean Talbot 19
20. Why SAKAI? • We wanted to be first in our market • We had good Sakai expertise • We wanted to keep control June 4 2013 Jean Talbot 20
21. Some numbers • First page – More than 50,000 unique visitors – Mostly from French Canada but reached 134 different countries (Haiti, France, Algeria, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Morocco, USA, Cameroun, Niger, …) • Introduction to Marketing – 3 850 registered participants – 1759 did the first test – 568 did the final exam – 450 passed • Understanding Financial Statements – 6 007 registered participants – 1465 did the first test – 1107 did the final exam – 1010 passed • Economic Problems and Policies – 4 859 registered participants June 4 2013 21 Jean Talbot
22. June 6, 2013 22 Education (%)
23. Pedagogical Approach June 4 2013 23 Jean Talbot
24. Welcome page of Jacques Raynauld’s course on Economic Problems and Policies June 4 2013 Jean Talbot 24
25. Week 1 page June 4 2013 Jean Talbot 25
26. The forums June 4 2013 26 Jean Talbot
27. Tests & Quizzes (Samigo) • One test every week • One final exam • All multiple choice questions • No peer assessment June 4 2013 Jean Talbot 27
28. Technology used • Vanilla Sakai 2.8.2 • Very little custom development • Sakai instance runs on – CPU : 4 core XEON E7 – 4870 – RAM : 4 Gb – Disk: 22 Gb – OS : RedHat Linux 5 • Web pages and pdf files are stored in Resources • Videos are on different servers (one for streaming, one for downloading) June 4 2013 Jean Talbot 28
29. Problems encountered • Forum – Problem : Forum became very slow. It took almost a minute to post a comment. Related to number of users registered. – Solution : Removed the function that updated the “synoptic” forum for all participants whenever a post was added or deleted. • Test & Quizzes : – Problem : some student reported having problems (too slow, pages not appearing, lost connection) while taking quizzes. – One question per page minimized the problems – Solution : no action taken. • All the server activity logs were ok, and reported no error. • When we tested the system from our computers, everything worked fine, even in periods of heavy affluence (more than 400 connections). • We suspect that the some students are using very old computers and/or have very slow Internet connection. They just could not handle Samigo. June 4 2013 Jean Talbot 29
30. Problems encountered • For administrative purposes, we also used Site Info, Class Roster and Gradebook 2. They are all quite slow because of the large number of students. June 4 2013 Jean Talbot 30
31. What’s needed • Better Interface – not as pretty as Coursera (2.9 will solve part of this problem) • Tool for Peer Assessments • Possibility for users to vote on comments posted in forums • Search in Forum • SCROM reader • Tool for certification • Tools for academic integrity June 4 2013 Jean Talbot 31
32. SAKAI has proven to be adequate for up to 6 000 registered students (1 500 active) June 4 2013 Jean Talbot 32
33. Likes • Quality of the material produced by faculty • Collaboration between the different departments involved • A large number of participants is an advantage • Involvement of many students • Format (6 weeks, flexibility/structure) • Quality of contributions on the forums was surprising • Open door to courses • Teaching laboratory • Transfer in our existing programs June 4 2013 Jean Talbot 33
34. Challenges • High drop-out rate • Student motivation • Mostly lectures and content focused • Little interaction with faculty • Interaction between participants • Validity of evaluations • Availability of proper technology • Sakai not designed for MOOCs • Costs • Financing June 4 2013 34 Jean Talbot
35. Success factors June 4 2013 Jean Talbot 35 Faculty Technology Instructional designers Audiovisual
36. Conclusion • Worthwhile experience • “Just do it” • But keep it simple June 4 2013 Jean Talbot 36