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.

[teacherchristianenglishmen]

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.

[abhinavganguly]

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

[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.

[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.

[letutordefrance]

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

[juanvillarinjr.]

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

[antoonmeerman]

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

[rockfishlearningmanagement]

Great presentation about eLearning. Massive Adaptive Interactive Texts!

[audorksdelivered]

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

[philippeberl]

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

[allenweng]

COVID: This TED talk needs more attention

[shaikhmohammadalavee]

Speaker: "By 2020, there will be self driving cars".

Me in 2020: Watching his lecture because even regular cars aren't working.

[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.

[mateoferretto]

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.

[Witchydragon]

that's my computer science professor!

[institutesale]

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

[johnmichaelferrer]

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

[delayuniar_]

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

[allandeguzman]

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?

[marie-lourosariocordova]

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