MOOCs in the world. An overview Agenda

. ICT and learning

. MOOCs: An international overview

. MOOCs in Italy

. Recent trends

2 ICT and learning

. ICT-based developments affect learning:  Where and When: off-campus courses, learning at a time and pace of learners’ choosing  Online learning (E-learning)  Blended/Hybrid learning (supplement to traditional teaching)  Open Educational Resources (OER)  MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)  How we learn: identify the issues that students struggle with and how learning outcomes can be improved  Adaptive learning  Big Data

Source: Fevolden and Tomte (2015) 3 MOOC: acronym

. Massive: large number of students . Open: stands for the gratuity and the availability of the courses . Online: MOOCs’ fundamental characteristic  The difference between the traditional courses and online MOOCs is represented by the strong interaction between students, thus creating a two-way teaching  This gives also the opportunity to generate new set of data that are used in order to improve the delivery of teaching (i.e. learning analytics) . Course: conversion of the classic teacher-student role. The teacher is no longer seen as a leader, but a guide within the course. This new concept allows to better take out the interaction between parties (Huan, 2015)

4 Growth of MOOCs

Source: Class Central, By the numbers: MOOCs in 2017 5 # registered students and market share by provider

37.0% 17.3% 11.5% 11.1% 8.8%

Source: Class Central, By the numbers: MOOCs in 2017 6 MOOCs distribution by subject

Source: Class Central, By the numbers: MOOCs in 2017 7 MOOCs in the US: the biggest global providers

COURSERA EDX . Founded by two Stanford Computer . Founded by and MIT Science professors in 2012 in 2012 . 25 million learners . 14 million+ learners . 149 University partners worldwide . 130+ institutional partners worldwide . 2,000+ courses . 1,900+ courses . 180+ specializations . For a verified certificate, fees range . 4 degree programs between $50-$300 USD . Priced at about $29-$99 USD to earn course certificate

See also: Canvas Network, Udacity, Academic Earth, Khan Academy Source: Providers’ website 8 MOOCs in China

National providers Global providers (ex. Coursera . XuetangX and Edx)  World’s first Chinese MOOC  Ex. University of Peking, Shanghai platform Jiao Tong University, Nanjing  Founded in 2013 by Tsinghua University University (Beijing)  11 million users  Ex. In 2013, Coursera zone was  1,400 courses launched: a Chinese-language  500+ partners across the world  20 million enrollments portal to Coursera hosted on . Kaikeba, TopU.com, … NetEase’s popular open education website

Source: Providers’ website 9 MOOCs in Europe

OpenupED European MOOC consortium (EMC)  Pan-European MOOC initiative launched  Launched during the Online, Open and in April 2013 Flexible Higher Education Conference 2017  Founding partners:  Founding partners:  EADTU (European Association of  FutureLearn (UK) Distance Teaching Universities) in  France Université Numérique (France) collaboration with the European  OpenupED (Europe) Commission  Miríada X (Spain)  EduOpen (Italy)  Offering together almost a 1,000 MOOCs  Large network of 250 higher education institutions

Source: Providers’ website 10 MOOCs in UK

National provider Global providers (ex. FutureLearn Coursera and Edx)

 Launched in 2013 by the Open  Ex. , University University of London, Imperial

 143 Higher Education institutions College London, University of all around the world Manchester, University of Edinburgh, …  8 million subscribers

 The majority of courses are free to join and study. Fees to earn a course certificate

Source: Providers’ website 11 MOOCs in Germany National providers: Global providers (ex. Coursera  Iversity and Edx)  Founded in 2011 by two students  Launched its first MOOC in 2013  Ex. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität  Offers 60 courses in collaboration with Universities, companies and NGOs München, Technische Universität  Academic and non academic partners all München over Europe  Over 750,000 users  6 languages  Open Hpi, OpenCourseWorld, Mooin,…  Kiron (focus on access to HE for refugees)

Source: Providers’ website 12 MOOCs in France

National provider Global providers (ex. Coursera France Université Numérique and Edx)

 Launched in 2013 by the Minister  Ex. Sorbonne Université, HEC Paris, of Higher Education and Research Sciences Po, École Normal  50 Higher Education institutions in Supérieure, École Polytechnique, … France and abroad

 1 million subscribers

 150 courses

 Courses in French and English

 Payment for certification

Source: Providers’ website 13 MOOCs in Italy: from global to local providers

Global providers (ex. Coursera, EdX) European providers (ex. OpenupEnd)

National providers (ex. OpenEdu) Single- University platforms (ex. PoliMI)

14 MOOCs in Italy (1/2) Global Providers European providers

 Coursera  OpenupED  Ex. Sapienza University of Rome,  Ex. International Telematic Bocconi University, Technical University UNINETTUNO University of Milan  EdX  Ex. University of Naples Federico II

Source: Providers’ website 15 MOOCs in Italy (2/2) National Provider Single-University providers

EduOpen  Ex. Polimi Open Knowledge  Since April 2016 (MOOC programme of Technical  A MIUR-funded project University of Milan), Federica  35,245 learners (University of Napoli Federico II)  155 courses  19 pathways  Supported by Moodle  17 partner Universities

Source: Providers’ website 16 MOOCs: Recent trends

. Shift in priorities towards users who are willing to pay  MOOCs are losing their Open feature . ¾ MOOCs learners hold a degree:  Key role in Life Long Learning within the changing job landscape . Most popular courses in 2017:  Artificial intelligence, bitcoin, programming, English, and learning skills (Coursera)  English, Data Analysis, science of happiness, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, robotics, programming, architecture, Spanish (EdX)

17 Case-study: HarvardX

. HarvardX is a University-wide strategic initiative to enable faculty to build and create open online learning experiences for residential and online use, and to enable groundbreaking research in online pedagogies

. Launched in parallel with EdX, HarvardX is fully independent

18 HarvardX Learner Community

HarvardX Learner Community Massive Diverse Global 318,692 learners who are full- 6.59 million of registrations 67% learners outside the US time working professionals 34% learners who self-identify 30,349 unique learners per course 193 countries represented teachers/instructors 1.15 million learners in UN 130,194 certificates earned 73% learners who are Millenials Developing Nations

Learning @ HarvardX Activity Time Course 1.20 billion clicks 11.8 millions learner hours 172 course offerings 1.80 millions learner hours spent 34 courses in , , 81.8 millions problem attempted on problems , design and education

Source: Provider’s website 19 HarvardX Learners by country Estimated number of Rank Country Share registred students 1 United States 884,510 33.0% 2 India 223,072 8.3% 3 Regno Unito 117,376 4.4% 4 Canada 106,482 4.0% 5 Brazil 101,314 3.8% 6 China 63,719 2.4% 7 Australia 58,270 2.2% 8 Germany 54,117 2.0% 9 Spain 47,868 1.8% 10 Mexico 45,430 1.7% 11 France 40,031 1.5% 12 Russia 33,496 1.2% 13 Egypt 28,466 1.1% 14 Colombia 28,401 1.1% 15 Japan 25,910 1.0% 16 Pakistan 25,582 1.0% 17 Ukraine 23,760 0.9% 18 Polonia 23,027 0.9% 19 Italy 22,889 0.9% 20 Nigeria 22,639 0.8% 21 Indonesia 17,690 0.7% 22 Vietnam 15,650 0.6% 23 Portugal 15,043 0.6% World 2,681,656 100.0% Source: Provider’s website 20