Daily Archives: June 21, 2016

Beyond MOOCs: Open Education at Scale (Abstract)

Here is a draft abstract for an upcoming keynote – comments welcome.

Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) providers like edX and Coursera have revealed an almost unlimited desire for education for people of all ages and all walks of life. While these pioneering efforts have achieved much, these learning opportunities are still in relatively short supply. Each course is costly to produce, deploy, and support. These costs are a rate limiting factor in scaling online education to the point where we begin meeting the much larger demand for high quality, plentiful and relevant education worldwide. We need to build a Next Generation Digital Learning Environment (NGDLE) that makes it so any teacher can build and efficiently deploy their own open courses to a worldwide audience. In this presentation, we will look at how we can build an open source infrastructure that is based on open standards and open content that will make creating an open education experience within the reach of any teacher, anywhere in the world. We will look at how educational technology will need to change to reduce the cost to produce, share, and even remix online educational content.