Online Learning and MOOCs

Working meeting: Thurs Nov. 29, 3:30pm-5:00pm

What do we want to achieve?

I'd be interested in hearing about: (a) status quo on Coursera courses (b) status quo on UBC tech & admin support for online courses (if any) (c) reasons for and against investing heavily in online courses

-- MichielVanDePanne - 01 Oct 2012

all of the above.

-- KevinLeytonBrown - 03 Oct 2012

With regard to (c), I'm interested in better understanding how current developments with online learning and MOOCS can help us provide the best education that we can for our students.

I'm also interested in thoughts on whether the department should provide resources to faculty who are developing MOOCS on an ongoing basis, and if so, what types of resources and based on what criteria.

-- AnneCondon - 09 Oct 2012

Given the interest in the topic, we (Anne, Gregor, Raymond, Michiel and I) have arranged a working meeting on Online Learning to be held Thu., Nov. 29, 3:30pm-5:00pm in X836. (It's in the CS events calendar - mark yours:

https://www.cs.ubc.ca/news-events/calendar/2012-11-29

By online learning we mean the full spectrum from simply uploading our lectures, putting them on YouTube on the UBC CS channel, through the flipped classroom to the full-on MOOC experience (making and using same).

There have been many recent developments we could discuss. Another reason for doing this is simply that the topic cuts across many of our committee mandates. I count seven with a finger in the pie: Program Experience, Science Education Initiative, Teaching and Learning Services, Communications, Space and Safety, Faculty Affairs and Computing. So there's a need for communication, coordination and for some mandate engineering.

Do we need a single forum? What should that be? How should we coordinate? Do we need more transparency? What support is available? Where is this all going? .....

We'll need to decide what we want to achieve in this meeting and how to structure it. To that end Michiel has created a twiki page where you can leave suggestions as to what you want to get out of this meeting:

https://bugs.cs.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/twiki/logon/Faculty/OnlineLearning

And we encourage people to discuss the topic there. We can start the conversation at the Brown Bag lunch tomorrow. This should get it going:

http://www.technologyreview.com/featured-story/429376/the-crisis-in-higher-education/

-- AlanMackworth - 04 Oct 2012

Good article on the Canadian angle:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/time-to-lead/building-open-learning-platforms-in-canada/article4595536/

-- AlanMackworth - 08 Oct 2012

Copied from faculty email thread:

Vardi does not answer the question in his title. And he seems to want to play King Canute. He states: "no business model has emerged for MOOC-based education."

But Thrun says he's found it (and the VCs believe him):

http://allthingsd.com/20121025/education-start-up-udacity-raises-funds-from-andreessen-horowitz/

Michiel and I tried to get people to use the wiki:

https://bugs.cs.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Faculty/OnlineLearning

to discuss this and prepare for our working meeting. But no luck - that's too much overhead - no notifications? It's an important topic But we think we should keep the clutter out of the faculty list - maybe that's not an issue. Would people prefer to use a list they can sign up for?

- Alan

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Holger H. Hoos <hoos@cs.ubc.ca> wrote: > An interesting view on the topic, from the editor in chief of Communications of the ACM (hot off e press):
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> http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/2370000/2366317/p5-vardi.pdf?ip=64.46.3.10&acc=OPEN&CFID=132282402&CFTOKEN=22415908&__acm__=1351178903_6bb9079704ea4d1ac600564c5c39245b
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Holger
>

-- AlanMackworth - 25 Oct 2012

From UBC University Counsel Re: IP and recording and posting lectures

Subject: RE: question regarding intellectual property an posting to YouTube Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 23:27:59 +0000 From: Jaworski, Michal <mxj@mail.ubc.ca> To: ditchfld@csDELETEthisTEXT.ubc.ca <ditchfld@cs.ubc.ca> CC: Hancock, Paul <paul.hancock@ubc.ca>

Moyra,

Thanks for your email. You've asked a good question, and one on which there is little publicly available guidance at this time.

What I can tell you is this:

- Policy – There is no specific Board of Governors’ policy about faculty recording their lectures and posting them on publically available sites, such as YouTube.

o it may be that some faculties have rules or guidelines about this, but our office is not generally involved in developing or enforcing these. The Faculty member should satisfy him/herself themselves about any applicable faculty-specific rules or guidelines.

o also, Faculty members may wish to consult with the folks in the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology, who have lots of resources to assist faculty members.

o Faculty members and faculties should, of course, consider the implications of using YouTube and consider whether this is the best way to achieve their goals. The University has published a Social Media Guidelines that give faculty members and faculties an overview of the suggestions and tips for establishing any sort of social media campaign (which would include YouTube). See: http://wiki.ubc.ca/Documentation:UBC_Social_Media_Handbook . This link also contains some best practices and references to UBC policies that are relevant (though not directly on point).

- Copyright – Faculty members hold the copyright in the lecture notes that they have authored and their performance of their lecture notes. This means that they, as the copyright holder, may choose how to distribute their material. If they want to publish it on YouTube, that’s their prerogative.

o Of course, if the faculty member does not have copyright to any material that is being presented or otherwise made visible on the video (e.g. photos, charts, etc. from textbooks), the faculty member must ensure that they comply with copyright law (see www.copyright.ubc.ca for guidance). In particular, the Digital Classroom Frequently Asked Questions has good information about this: http://copyright.ubc.ca/faq/digital-classroom/.

- Privacy – Students attending the lecture - Due to the potential for images of students to be contained within the lecture video, we recommend that the faculty member (a) advise and have the students in the class to orally acknowledge that the lecture is being recorded; and (b) if any student is shown on the video, have the student sign a written consent form prior to posting the video on YouTube. Our office is currently working on forms for use in precisely these circumstances, as well as a Privacy Fact Sheet. In the meantime, if you require such a consent form, please let me know and I will provide the you or the faculty member a form in advance of making them available publically.

- Privacy – Other Presenters – if the faculty member wishes to record a lecture that features another presenter, or a student (or group of students) as presenters, it is necessary to get all the presenters to sign a consent form. Again, our office is currently working on forms for use in precisely these circumstances. In the meantime, if you are requiring such a consent form, please let me know and I will provide you or the faculty member the form in advance of making them available publically.

If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know.

Best regards,

Michal

Original Message----- From: Moxham, Elizabeth Sent: October-04-12 12:14 PM To: Ditchfield, Moyra Cc: Jaworski, Michal Subject: RE: question regarding intellectual property an posting to YouTube

Hi Moyra,

Thanks for your note. I am forwarding this to my colleague, Michal Jaworski, who will be able to help you.

Kind regards,

Liz

Elizabeth Moxham, LLM, CFRE

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Original Message-----

From: Moyra Ditchfield [mailto:ditchfld@cs.ubc.ca]

Sent: October-04-12 7:30 AM

To: Moxham, Elizabeth

Subject: question regarding intellectual property an posting to YouTube

Hi,

In the Department of Computer Science we have several faculty interested in recording their lectures and then posting them to YouTube. Can you tell me what the UBC policy is for a faculty posting lecture material to YouTube? Is it up the each faculty member to approve this for themselves or do they need permission from their department head or someone else? Is there any UBC process they need to follow prior to posting the lectures?

Any information you can shed on this would be most appreciated.

Regards,

Moyra Ditchfield

Directory of Facilities,

Department of Computer Science

-- AlanMackworth - 29 Oct 2012

A thoughtful big picture view:

http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2012/11/napster-udacity-and-the-academy/

Scan of recent developments:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/education/edlife/massive-open-online-courses-are-multiplying-at-a-rapid-pace.html

-- AlanMackworth - 19 Nov 2012

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/How-Artificial-Intelligence-Can-Change-Higher-Education-180015811.html

-- AlanMackworth - 21 Nov 2012

Notes for the working meeting on November 29, 2012

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0. What do we want to get out of this meeting?

1. General Discussion of Scope of Online Learning

By online learning (OL) we mean the full spectrum from simply uploading lectures, putting them on YouTube on the UBC CS channel, through the flipped classroom and online forums to the full-on MOOC experience (making and using same). Current and future trends. Coursera, Udacity, edX, … Business models.

2. Current Status at UBC

a) status quo on current Coursera courses

b) status quo on UBC tech & admin support for online courses (if any)

c) Status of UBC decision making and cttees: "Flexible Learning"

3. Implications for CS@UBC

a) Short term

Should the department provide resources to faculty who are developing OL and MOOCS on an ongoing basis, and if so, what types of resources and based on what criteria? What resources does the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) provide?

b) What role can and should online courses play in our existing courses?

c) How can current developments with OL and MOOCS help us provide the best education that we can for our students?

d) Decision making OL is now in the mandate of our Program Experience Cttee (PEC). PEC will take the lead. But OL cuts across seven other committees: Science Education Initiative, Teaching and Learning Services, Communications, Space and Safety, Faculty Affairs, Finance and Computing. So there's a need for communication and coordination led by PEC. How do we decide on what facilities and support to offer?

e) Reasons for and against investing heavily in online courses

f) How do we encourage communication and sharing of OL knowledge and best practices?

4. IP issues

Copyright – Faculty members hold the copyright in the lecture notes that they have authored and their performance of their lecture notes. This means that they, as the copyright holder, may choose how to distribute their material. If they want to publish it on YouTube, that’s their prerogative. But lecture materials are often developed by more than an individual faculty member, especially well-produced OL material.

If the faculty member does not have copyright to any material that is being presented or otherwise made visible on the video (e.g. photos, charts, etc. from textbooks), the faculty member must ensure that they comply with copyright law (see www.copyright.ubc.ca for guidance). In particular, the Digital Classroom Frequently Asked Questions has good information about this: http://copyright.ubc.ca/faq/digital-classroom/.

- Privacy – Students attending the lecture, other presenters – if the faculty member wishes to record a lecture that features another presenter, or a student as presenters, it is necessary to get all the presenters to sign a consent form. UBC University Counsel office is developing consent forms.

5. Longer term implications of OL

For universities in general, UBC in particular.

For Computer Science education in general, CS@UBC in particular.

What OL strategy should we develop and adopt?

How do we do that?

-- AlanMackworth - 23 Nov 2012

PDF of my slides from the working meeting are attached below.

-- GregorKiczales - 30 Nov 2012

An alternative perspective on MOOC: http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/12/the-mooc-movement-is-not-an-indicator-of-educational-evolution.html

-- LaksVSLakshmanan - 05 Dec 2012