Possible, if we continue as until now...

Created by: Jaak Henno / Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, Hannu Jaakkola / Tampere University of Technology, Pori, & Jukka Mäkelä / University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland. & B. Brumen / University of Maribor, Slovenia

Once we were the main source of Information for our students ...

Now students have lot of sources ...

Laptops, iPads, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn,...

Most of students are working

In Estonia, > 75% of IT students are working already on bachelor level

They consider university complementary to their work

Because of their work they expect all course materials available on www

The European Information Technology Observatory predicts 7-11% growth of IT sector in Estonia

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) give over 10 years back free access on the Internet to educational materials for all of its courses

From this initiative has emerged a new educational initiative - MOOC

Massively Open Online Courses (MOOC):

• Average enrollment to a course - 50000 (but there are also courses with 100000 students
• Total number of students:
  Coursera > 1 million;
  Udacity - ca 500000;
  edX - 180000
• Number of courses -
  Recently started or starting soon (55)
  Just Announced (60)
  Courses in Progress (115)
  Future courses (297)
  Self Paced (42)
  Finished courses (204)
  

Massively Open Online Courses (MOOC) enrollment:

Massively Open Online Courses (MOOC) completion rates:

Can traditional Universities compete with On-line Education ?

Online Courses are much cheaper than traditional university teaching

Online Courses are more convenient for working, mobile students

Several universities are already accepting on-line courses as a way of learning
BUT they definitely want to remain as (only) providers of credits and diploma

It may happen, that in the future the two basic functions will be separated:
education is provided by MOOC - Coursera etc
universities evaluate results and give credits - diplomas

Role of University Teachers in the Age of MOOC

The basic knowledge needed/used in university courses is already accessible in Online Courses

But it is very difficult to understand the value and significance of those resources of knowledge

Understanding and evaluating of on-line knowledge is the role of University Teachers

Teaching techniques essential in the era of On-line Education ?

Course materials should be 100% on-line

Blended teaching - face-to-face in class-room together with use of on-line materials

reversed/flipped teaching - suggest course participants to check out some on-line materials already before considering them in classroom

activate students with open-ended questions: "Now it was demonstrated, that this algorithm/process does not work as expected - how it should be modified?"

gamification, e.g. use these open-ended questions for starting competitions - who can score more points?

Will University Techers survive ?

Teachers will survive, but only:

• if they constantly learn themselves;
• if they consider classroom and the whole teaching process as a two-way communication and students as active participants of this communication, who often can give significant contributions;

There is no place any more for classical lecturing

classical lecturing - the best way to ensure the transfer of information from the notes of the teacher to the notes of the students—without touching the students’ mind

Modern lecturing

Extensive use of virtual, interactive knowledge networks

collaboration and gamification

blending of classroom and on-line teaching in different forms of reversed (flipped) teaching

active exploitation of rich depositories of on-line knowledge

just-in-time and just-when-needed "thrivable education"

Our's is a difficult, challenging but still very pleasurable profession which will survive

THE END

By Jaak Henno / http://www.ttu.ee/users/jaak

Hannu Jaakkola, Jukka Mäkelä, Bostjan Brumen