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Oct 31, 2026
Haoqi ZhangGUEST
You could imagine instead compromising in a variety of ways.
Haoqi ZhangGUEST
So instead of scaling undergraduate research, you could try to scale lecture, right? You could do MOOCs, you could do those kinds of things.
Haoqi ZhangGUEST
You could train a small set of elite students as we typically do with PhD students, or you could give undergrads root work.
Haoqi ZhangGUEST
You just say, okay, here's a project, here's some stuff to do, and that's still good, right, because you're getting undergrads involved in research, yet none of these options really provide the same learning benefits and scales the values that I wanted to scale.
Nick TuraniHOST
I think we're the last of that era.
Nick TuraniHOST
You think people are now chasing passion? No, kids can just be like, oh, I'm going to fucking edit for MOOC.
Nick TuraniHOST
I don't need to pay attention in college.
Nick TuraniHOST
They can mod for Bush.
Aswath DamodaranHOST
Now, we know that a lot of people start on online classes, but they don't finish them.
Aswath DamodaranHOST
In fact, the statistic, I think with the MOOCs, remember those 20 years ago, that was supposed to be the next big thing and they never quite caught on.
Aswath DamodaranHOST
Only about 5% to 10% of people who started MOOCs complete them.
Aswath DamodaranHOST
One reason, of course, is you start with the best of intentions, but then you run out of time and you just drop out.
Aswath DamodaranHOST
It's easy to drop out.
David DemingHOST
And this was the era of the Massively Open Online Course, or MOOC.
David DemingHOST
People thought MOOCs were going to disrupt higher education, and they weren't completely wrong.
David DemingHOST
Coursera launched in 2012, and it ended the year with 1.7 million users.
David DemingHOST
Harvard and MIT committed $60 million that same year to jointly launch edX.
David DemingHOST
And the New York Times declared 2012 the year of the MOOC.
David DemingHOST
MOOCs are still with us.
David DemingHOST
YouTube is the biggest MOOC of all.
David DemingHOST
90% of American teenagers use YouTube.
Belle StikeleatherGUEST
And then so then my supervision also virtually done by my supervisor from the U.S. And I was still in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
Belle StikeleatherGUEST
And then I during the pandemic, it gave me this idea of, yes, from the time that I was exposed to virtual learning and virtual coaching, I already thought of how do we measure the engagement of these students when they're completing their courses? specific courses and there were so many there's there's a high attrition rate when it comes to distance learning especially if we're talking about MOOCs right
Ben ReimanHOST
wow
Belle StikeleatherGUEST
so I said I want to measure that of course back then AI is not a real thing yet well it's a thing but now it's like tremendously progressing so fast so yeah I said like I wanted to measure that engagement of students With some rubrics and then using constructional questions as well.
Lori FreifeldGUEST
And we all know how that happened, right? So, so that, didn't change the world dramatically, but we wrote about it a lot.
Lori FreifeldGUEST
And then gradually, that kind of tapered off, and you don't really hear about MOOCs anymore.
Lori FreifeldGUEST
But then it became AI, and everything was all about AI, and AI is going to change the world.
Lori FreifeldGUEST
And AI is changing the world.
Lori FreifeldGUEST
But we're still in that phase of, OK, how do we coexist with AI and keep the human in the loop? And how do we keep those guardrails in place? And so there's a lot going on.
Lori FreifeldGUEST
you always have the organizations that are going to sign up for the shiny objects and and pursue those and and go far down that path and then find out maybe this wasn't what we needed to do and we need to kind of back it up again and rethink this and so it's kind of a combination of looking at the new emerging technologies and how they're being used um what we kind of guard rails or ethics we need to create around them and then you know are those tried and true methods still going to stay in place
Eric ChemiHOST
The MOOCs thing is funny.
Eric ChemiHOST
I remember that was going to take over the world.
Bob SuttonHOST
problem to have, and it's something that every startup needs.
Bob SuttonHOST
But let's sort of back up, You've been, even though in this sort of MOOC online education space, you've been doing it for about a year and a half or two
Amin SaberiGUEST
years? Right, a year and a half, yeah, something like
Bob SuttonHOST
that.
Sean PhelpsGUEST
I think it's still something people probably should do, but there's so many opportunities to learn outside the classroom now.
Sean PhelpsGUEST
Um, and there have been for a while, you know, 10 years ago when the, or maybe it was 20 years ago now where MOOCs became a thing in the, the massive open online courses.
Sean PhelpsGUEST
Okay.
Joel BeasleyHOST
Yeah.
Andrew McGettiganGUEST
But there was definitely a drive to have it cheaper.
Andrew McGettiganGUEST
And I think one of the things perhaps that's been forgotten is how keen they were on MOOCs.
Andrew McGettiganGUEST
It's probably even a phrase you've probably not even heard for about 10 years.
Andrew McGettiganGUEST
But there was a huge enthusiasm for MOOCs in 2013-14.
Andrew McGettiganGUEST
I nearly wrote a book on MOOCs in
Jeremy GilbertHOST
2020.
Jeremy GilbertHOST
Remind us what MOOCs weeks are.
Alan FinlaysonHOST
Massive open online course.
Teggin SummersGUEST
And so I started teaching online as a graduate teaching assistant in a MU, a multi-user object-oriented domain.
Teggin SummersGUEST
So I like to say before there were MOOCs, there were Moos.
Teggin SummersGUEST
And so we had a chat room and I could use HTML to sort of build out the exercises for that day's class.
Teggin SummersGUEST
I ended up in as a TA in a computer lab.
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