The Era of Online Learning | Niema Moshiri | TEDxUCSD

In this talk, Niema Moshiri talks about his experience as a student in a massive classroom, and how this to his goal of rethinking education. As classroom sizes continue to increase, he illustrates the benefits of adaptive online education as a replacement for the traditional classroom.
Alexander Niema Moshiri is currently a Ph.D. student in the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology program at the University of California, San Diego. He works on computational biology, with a research focus on phylogenetics and phylogenomics. Aside from research, Niema places a heavy emphasis on teaching, namely on the development of online educational content, primarily Massive Adaptive Interactive Texts (MAITs). For the past few years, he has worked with Dr. Pavel Pevzner and Dr. Phillip Compeau in the development of the Bioinformatics Specialization Track on Coursera, and has separately co-authored a free online MAIT on Data Structures that is being used at UCSD and USD.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@abhinavganguly3917]

Had him as a professor. I learned a lot more and enjoyed my course a lot more with this type of course structure!

[@teacherchristianenglishmen2307]

The problem with online education, at least in Costa Rica, is that not all the people have access to a decent internet connection, not because it is not available but because some families don´t have money to pay for it. This is creating a big gap between social classes, where families with a better economical situation are continuing with a virtual learning process, but on the other side, some families are struggling to survive one day at a time, specially now with all the COVID 19 issues, this is seriously affecting the education process in many countries in our region, if we are moving forward to this new online education era, the governments need to invest first on decent and affordable connectivity services first to look for some equity among the population.

[@Ssgmfs]

this can also be applied to the formats that are restricted in uploading things in the USA online classrooms. A lot of formats you have to pay for or have a free trial and keep having to make new accts to avoid paying for it. Therefore making it more difficult for the same social class reason.

[@sheyf7562]

Agreed. Most developing nations suffering with this too.

[@smritiid3697]

So you mean to say, They have a fair amount of resources to compensate with ridiculously overpriced traditional universities,but don't have an excess to a decent internet services?

[@nkd3047]

our lord and savior jeff bezos is working on it...see Project Kuiper lol

[@TiaguinhoMu]

you got to have proper devices for it and the connection must be stable which it isnt in good part of the country. sometimes its not available at all@Korsalath

[@letutordefrance1195]

Woooah SPEECHLESS , Thanks for your insight, and allow us to be in your shoes

[@DColcla]

MOITS = 2017 The Feynman Technique = 1949 It took 68 years for [electronic] education to [begin] catch up to Dr. Feynman. What an extraordinarily brilliant professor.

[@shrinivasprabhu5895]

Elearning beautifully explained...

[@juanvillarinjr.9646]

Amazing! I want to listen more about this era of online learning! Kudos!

[@arafatmy]

Individualized Self-Paced Learning ISPL Thank you so very much, your talk kind of cemented my thought and ideas on how to cope up with shift in the teaching and learning. It is time for us all to adapt to a more interactive and collaborative learning methods, and the web is full of useful tools. We need to help our learners to shift gears to this fast and abundant learning style.

[@jamforall]

this makes sense. small pieces of information and apply the info to answer a problem and to know and avoid learning breakdown. Awesome Thanks

[@antoonmeerman]

Thank you. A very sensible method of making education for all and helping students develop confidence.

[@rockfishlearningmanagement8713]

Great presentation about eLearning. Massive Adaptive Interactive Texts!

[@Bloodedshoes]

I loved his talk !

[@audorksdelivered]

Very clear explanation! Online learning really enhances how students learn.

[@Adixon5]

This comment did not age well

[@allenweng518]

COVID: This TED talk needs more attention

[@kararenninger]

Thank you for sharing❤

[@romchiks]

Good talk!

[@aleckapisa8067]

i like it!

[@philippeberl897]

currently it is 2020 and there are still no self-driving taxis

[@chrisblevins5833]

OK!

[@st0rmzee723]

my thought too

[@ThatJPGamer]

There’s actually a company that has self driving taxis in a few cities in Arizona :)

[@tuhindebbarma1877]

Tesla

[@shaikhmohammadalavee34]

Speaker: "By 2020, there will be self driving cars". Me in 2020: Watching his lecture because even regular cars aren't working.

[@lumaxz]

coronavirus has made this a reality

[@someonesomewhere9254]

Wow ! This comment is one year old

[@THEMATT222]

LOL true

[@JessicaMonte]

We need to make Wi-Fi accessible to all people in all geographic locations in order to break down barriers due to economics affecting learners. Ideally, access to a human teacher and fellow students helps us explore our ideas more deeply but online courses are a great resource when in person attendance is not possible. This will be great for professional training.

[@robLV]

Nicely done Mr Moshiri. Thank you

[@mateoferretto2175]

One thing he actually didn't get is the alternative proposals and approaches to education... when he mentions the certificate at the end of the course he wants to prove it meaningless, but IT IS NOT. It is there not a certificate but as a short-end goal that can be rapidly obtained. That is mainly because of gamification in education and it's Skinner box's tactics, which, in my view, are way more important than online learning. Making learning online doesn't make it better nor worse, it is how you teach not the technology you use that makes it good. Technology is indeed a good tool, but like any tool, it is not a solution.

[@laurentragbafoutour3305]

Tous n'avons pas les mêmes vision de la chose sur un enseignement en ligne. J'ai toujours pour ma part apprécier ces enseignements.

[@availablehage]

Believe me it's not worth much in private sector

[@delayuniar_]

see, 3 years ago! 2020 has made this a reality.

[@institute4sale382]

No doubt. e learning enhances the quality of learning and teaching.

[@litinupcito2044]

Liar it’s worse for most people if you pass online classes you are not normal alien

[@paulallen2680]

@@litinupcito2044 what grade are you?

[@johnmichaelferrer2314]

Very great explanation. It's so amazing that E-learning have already come this far..

[@jeariley2330]

Indeed. This is E-learning! There are a lot of more stuff that you can learn online. Some people learn coding programs from just watching youtube videos. While some website offer step by step learning process where the end product is your own personalized project/product.

[@johnmichaelferrer2314]

Can you name some of them? I mean, i know there is udemy, lynda. What others do you know?

[@jeariley2330]

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[@laurentragbafoutour3305]

Ok! bien dit

[@Witchydragon]

Ayyyyyy that's my computer science professor!

[@christopherlin4078]

Hes a prophet lmao. Did his PHD on pandemic spread and promotes online learning.

[@marie-lourosariocordova8859]

My daughter will be come like this. Mariver Cordova Miranda 35 yr. old.

[@crusaderqk]

I GOT MY ONLINE COURSE IN CODING AND SALESFORCE. I GOT A JOB AND A SIDE HUSTLE OUT OF IT! YOUR EDUCTATION DEPENDS ON YOU. WHETER YOU ARE IN A CLASSROOM OR FACING A COMPUTER IT DOESN'T MATTER! WHAT MATTERS IS YOUR ATTITUDE TO LEARNING!

[@williamsherman4706]

It is frustrating, as an online high school teacher, to hear a well meaning Ted Talk, that fails completely to be informed, or up to date. There are programs way ahead of this already with systems that are already attempting to accommodate and scaffold at the level that the student needs. Everything he presented is already in the works! He made no mention of Canvas, Blackboard, or BrightSpace which, with a good online teacher, are already doing a lot of this. There is a lot of interaction online. I chat with students, do Discussion Boards with students, email students, video chat with students, video chat with groups of students, and I even make personalized youtube videos to help students with specific problems. Also, all of my students respond in a discussion, not just the student who speaks up. Online, EVERY student discusses every topic, and EVERY student can get personalized help if needed. My daughter is doing her entire last semester of college online, and she loves it. MOOCs are shameful, but there is soooo much more to online learning already. I honestly thought this video was about 7 years old, but it is not. MAITS sounds great, but it also misses the point that the BIG advantage online is learning is supported by video. Videos make it personal, and for those who struggle with reading as an avenue to learning, video is changing the playing field. I watch students with reading comprehension problems achieve amazing stuff because the software reads with them, and the videos support a preferred learning style for many students. I believe all he is really talking about is an online learning system that "accommodates" to the student. Those are already rolling. They are far from perfect, but they exist.

[@williamzhao2521]

the problem is. Those that know this, don't matter, and those that matter, don't know this. Think of the amount of personalize learning you can make by one on one online tutorials rather than 100 to 1 classroom teaching. The issue is that before the industrial revolution, there were small class sizes similar to the online tutorials, instead of blindly copying the past, we need to embrace that personalized learning pace provided by online teaching.

[@joshn2342323]

The truth is most online courses from traditional universities are basically a joke. It sounds like you are doing it right with online learning. I think the big takeaway for a teacher is the teacher needs to be actively using the latest technology to improve the learning experience. Most teachers don't do this because they're basically technology illiterate or they have a phobia of using new technologies. That's the reality.

[@davidprocopio5833]

He is talking about something completely different from what you are talking about. He is talking about a fully automated and perfectly scalable online learning platform. All of those sites are just glorified message boards. Besides that, what he is referring to is even beyond Coursera. He is talking about a theoretical platform that is free, engaging, interactive, certifiable, and most of all, educational. Imagine you turn on your computer to start learning about the thermodynamics of combustion engines. Within the course you can create your own 3D engine by changing different characteristics of it. As you design it then it reveals the stats, heat distribution, thermal effeciency, and other stats. Clicking on the stats gives formula for how they are formed, how they can be improved, and other applications of the rule. You are then in competition with your classmates to see who can design the most effecient engine. All of this is an interactive game that teaches you concepts that you would have read in a book or had a teacher talk about in a powerpoint.

[@laurentragbafoutour3305]

Ok! vous prie d'être un peut indulgent à l'encontre de ce professeur et très bientôt.

[@myreadingmapped]

For an example of what Nierna is talking about check out the over 600 interactive maps of history, science, weather and climate at Climateviewer. org to see how personalized individual learning is not only fascinating but an effective.tool for teachers who can customize each map based on a wide selection of base maps, 2D or 3D, terrain or flat, merge maps together, download them and edit them or embed them in their school web site. You can even see the solar system and eclipses. Students can even digitally walk through the mountains and valleys of the Travels of Marco Polo while reading the book online.

[@allandeguzman8799]

Nice presentation but my worry is -what if we begin to have other people as students( of any age group) interact and share their thoughts,does this approach cater a great danger as to the degree of our academic and meaningful learning since we now have all interactions coming from not so well prepared academicians Or experts?

[@learnwithshobhamehta7816]

ONLINE CLASSES are here to stay.We need to find ...how to get maximum advantage from them 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@meganstimpson3036]

Are there any online courses that utilize interactive text like Niema suggested?

[@dylanw.s.8768]

He has at least one of his own I know.

[@PRAVEENKUMARKP]

Coursera is what she referred to in the video . There is also Datacamp which has such options., and I guess there are many other exists which i do not know

[@joshn2342323]

Yes. Codecademy uses it.

[@philspaghet]

Stepik is also a good one

[@rhythmspb7634]

Industries are rapidly exploring ways to simplify their operations and making it easy for the employees to work. The online IT courses help an individual to upgrade the skills related to various technical aspect so as to make an individual more efficient for the employers. One such online learning platform is eduzek that has instructor led interactive sessions for IT professionals and who aspire to upskill their potentials for competitive corporate world having experienced training experts.

[@deptocapacitacionminsaludmza]

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:06 El orador recuerda su experiencia en una conferencia de genética con 350 estudiantes y una proyección del profesor en una pantalla pequeña. 02:05 El aumento de solicitudes de ingreso a las universidades ha llevado a clases masivas y problemas de calidad en la educación. 03:15 Se busca usar la tecnología para mejorar la educación y personalizarla, siguiendo el modelo de otras industrias. 04:11 La idea de que las conferencias tradicionales son la forma óptima de aprendizaje es errónea, ya que cada estudiante tiene un ritmo de aprendizaje diferente. 06:30 Se propone la creación de M AIT (Textos Masivos Adaptativos Interactivos) para mejorar la educación en línea. 11:35 Ejemplos de éxito de M AIT en cursos en línea. 14:38 La educación en línea amplía el acceso a estudiantes de diversas edades y situaciones, siendo financieramente sostenible. 15:49 La visión es llevar la educación personalizada a todos los estudiantes en todo el mundo. Made with HARPA AI

[@Bloodedshoes]

He basically explained flipped classroom as the solution

[@yourgoingtohellyoutoo1282]

Vickstar looking real different today 💀

[@loriegalban2193]

e learning is best for big size classrooms

[@plerpplerp5599]

Things that make you go hmm 🤔

[@edgarcabungcal1508]

Edgar was here

[@jesusormuhammad1241]

Dude put me to sleep. Luckily for me I can go back to the begin and listen again.

[@darrenphillips4799]

Now that we're in the era of on-line education post covid, does that mean Phoenix University is the Harvard of on-line schools; seeing as how Harvard is the oldest university?

[@MinzifaFadeeva]

на русском языке есть возможность послушать?

[@astroterra5021]

I cannot learn online...nothing goes in, I still take knowledge in better with a teacher and books

[@m3c4nyku43]

Impossible. Text is text. Images are images. If you can't learn it means you don't want to learn.

[@chrisblevins5833]

what are you talking about

[@CHMichael]

Look im doing it right now. If i dont like how you teach i watch some one elses presentation.

[@pradipchaterjee9576]

E learning is nt effective atleast runing our beautiful and bright future

[@patrickmessina1278]

Ah, what a lovely drink of Kool-Aid. I finally understand that there is no existential imperative in authentic education. And we are not embodied beings, but rather two-dimensional and virtual. What a revelation! And finally, all of the pesky inspiration and romance has been removed from the educational experience! What a refreshing drink!

[@fabracht]

Completely biased opinion, based on one sided data evaluation, please, think critically before sharing this video.

[@user-vy8yw2mj2u]

Why is he not wearing a belt? But his shirt is tucked in 😳😳😳

[@Bell.A130]

- EHQ - that’s all I can see now😂

[@exodeous]

Why cant i see the comments on anything and how did ted get this bad