 Good morning everyone my name is Brian Call and John Donovan and we developed a MOOC which is currently ongoing in fact it's about 1600 people logged in right now on our MOOC and it's finishing up next week but what I'm going to talk to you about this morning is how we got to where we are today so it all happened about maybe three years ago over a cup of coffee and there was a report came out in higher ed that said in 50 years time or less about half to 4500 colleges in the US will have closed education will be free for everyone and Harvard will have enrolled 10 million students well today if we look at the launch of MOOCs Coursera already have 10 million students edX have 4 million and future learn relatively new have about 800,000 and they were only launched since May 2012 so there was another report then came out from the Institute of Public Policy Research called an avalanche is coming and I thought this quote was very relevant it said university leaders need to take control of their own destiny and seize the opportunity open to them through technology MOOCs for example provide broader deeper more exciting education and we kind of said okay it's either disrupt or be disrupted so let's sit down and see you know what we can do and we said well where do we start it's quite daunting and so we looked at Salomon Khan the Khan Academy and he started in his wardrobe so I said well I'll start my wardrobe and what we did is we set up a MOOC studio in my wardrobe you'll see on the video later on there's a roller blind that pulls down here with the IT Sligo logo and we set up our microphone and everything there and that's where it all took place and then the other thing we said is where will we do this and we said well if we go to Coursera edX they charge you about 100,000 or more for production assistance well we didn't have 100,000 and we also wanted to use Moodle because we figured all this learning could be incorporated into our own practices and so I would learn on learning on a whole new system and then thirdly I suppose was a little bit of groucho marks that we wouldn't want to be a member of any organization that would have us so the next thing I want to talk about then is some of the teaching exemplars that we brought in so in the teaching exemplars we kind of looked at look what works for 20 people doesn't work for 2,000 so a few of 5% of your class asking you questions today you know three or four students all of a sudden 5% of you know 20,000 or 100 students so you really have to figure out in this case you know how you classify how you label tag how people find the content that they need to find and we leveraged off an excellent book from Steve Krug called don't make me think you know those when you go to a website and you're booking a hotel how often how hard is it to find the reserve you know make a reservation or how hard is it to find the location the hotel I mean some people like you're trying to figure out you know where this is so we really had to think of the whole information architecture and that was the first thing we did then we looked at the actual learning and we leveraged off a book by Benedict Kerry and he talked about you know how we actually learn he's a New York Times reporter and what we saw there was that you know he we don't lock ourselves in rooms like we were told to do and turn down all the music and so on and one of the things we picked up on he said like is giving a quiz at the start of a course where people don't even know stuff is actually more valuable because when we're taking quizzes are we learning or are we failing and traditionally we were failing but actually we're learning so we have a syllabus quiz and we put that in at the start and then people start looking for that information and then we introduced the syllabus quiz every week and the other thing we looked at is this analogy of sport is why do 82,000 people go into Croke Park well I would argue they're there to support your team but actually also because someone keeps the score imagine if they called you up a week after the game and said this is the score will we do that in our exams we give them the exam and then we called them up three weeks later and we give them the score but we might not give them feedback so two things we put in we put in a progress bar so people could tick off as they were doing things and see exactly where they were and then we gave them real-time feedback on their quizzes so they didn't have to email us if they failed something there was a fully detailed response on how they got there so that brings us into David Putnam and I thought you know he said within education the streaming of videos movies animations documentaries and so forth seamlessly and vividly incorporated into day-to-day teaching practice and then just to finish up what was the impact I have some quotes here I think there's one that's really interesting there where this lady says I'm working in retail and delighted to attend IT Sligo's course thank you IT Sligo I've put my kids to bed now and now it's off to study so from an impact point of view our first MOOC had a 31% completion rate this is where MOOCs are criticized for very low completion rates our second MOOC is 42% completion rate from a transitions point of view 85% were in the workplace and about 80% said they were very satisfied with it and finally everything that we have here we've done on the MOOC on the the information architecture is now being rolled out campus-wide and IT Sligo across all of our courses so that information architecture has been translated to the Moodle thank you very much