This document summarizes the evolution and results of an open online arithmetic course (MOOC) offered by Scottsdale Community College. Over 500 students from around the world signed up, but completion rates were low, with only 13 students completing all lessons. For future offerings, the college plans to increase enrollment to 1,000, shorten the duration to 6 weeks, remove discussion groups to promote more interaction, and advertise the certificate earlier. While MOOCs show promise for community colleges, their potential is still being explored as completion numbers remain a challenge. This initial MOOC was a learning experience for investigating open online education models.

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Evolution Of a truly open arithmetic MOOC
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Scottsdale, Arizona

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4. Scottsdale Community College
Image Source: Donna Gaudet

5. One of 10 Colleges – Maricopa
Community College District

6. Who? What?
When?
Where?
Why?

7. Who?
What?
When?
Where?
Why?

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12. Basic Arithmetic

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Does this
MOOC make my
CLASS look BIG?
@donagee

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16. What does OPEN really mean?
Massively Open Online Course
Open Educational Resources

18. 500 Students from around the world!

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28. Content
Communication
Checkup
Certification

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31. 12 Lessons covering all content for the course

32. Workbook with Interactive Videos

33. Online Practice and Assessment

34. B
A

35. Automatically Placed
Self-Enroll

36. My role in this class is that of designer and coordinator. I am kind of like the person that
takes care of, say, a soccer field and gets it ready for practice and play. I will not be able
to respond to individual emails and messages about the class but I will be lurking around
the discussion boards and participating there.
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41. The Potential…500 Students!

42. The Reality…
Activity Participation
Signed up 512
Orientation Quiz 103
Created MathAS Account 75
Completed Lesson 1 53

43. The Final Stats…Lesson Completion
0 1-3 4-6 7-9 10-12
Final
Test
# of Students 22 53 27 20 16 13
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
#ofStudents
# of Lessons Completed (75 students)
% 29 71 36 27 21 17

44. The Final Stats…Course Completion
Course Completion Out of Those Who… %
Signed up 2.5%
Completed the orientation quiz 12.6%
Created a MathAS account 17.3%
Completed Lesson 1 24.5%

45. Lessons Learned…Future Offerings
• Enrollment Size – increase to 1000
• Decrease duration of class (13 weeks to 6 weeks)
• Leave discussion groups all together to promote
more interaction and sense of community
• Advertise Certificate of Completion early on

46. Course Completion…after changes
Cohort %
Summer 2013 19/350 = 5.4%
Fall 2013 41/727 = 5.6%
Including at least 4 current SCC students in
the Fall Cohort…

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48. 2. SCC Enrollment Potential
1. Help Students learn arithmetic
3. Learn about & investigate MOOCs

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What about all the
MOOC hype and
hoopla over the past
year?

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failure/

53. The Promise of MOOCS for CC’s?
• Still early…not many CC’s in the MOOC space
• Completion numbers are not encouraging
• May be some potential for a hybrid MOOC
(online option with in-person, regular
instructor support)

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MOOCS …the beginning
of a MOOvement
to unbundle
educational goods and
services and rethink
traditional education
@donagee
MOOCS …to be continued

55. Dr. Donna Gaudet
Scottsdale Community College
Arizona, USA
donna.gaudet@scottsdalecc.edu
@donagee