M O O CMassive Online CourseOpen

Inside a MOOC

Enrolled ‘Active’ Week 3 Assess

Week 5 Assess

Week 7 Assess

Optional Essay(Peer

marked)

Used Forum

Statement of Achievement

98,128 53,255 13,928 11,439 9,937 631 7,206 9,445

Introduction to Philosophy

Academics 7

Teaching Assistants 4

Course Duration 7 weeks

Videos 36

Average Video Length 7 mins

1 Academic lead per week

Academics active in Forums

Assessment: Weekly Quizzes

50% pass mark (across all Quizzes)

Wiki, social media, Google Hangouts Not used

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Student EngagementCourseLevel

Auditing Completing Disengaging Sampling

School 6% 27% 28% 39%

UG 6% 8% 12% 74%

PG 9% 5% 6% 80%

Based on 3 Computer Science Courses taught by Stanford University on Coursera

• Auditing – engaged with content, didn’t complete assessments• Completing – completed the majority of assessments• Disengaging – started early assessments but dropped out• Sampling – watch a few videos (usually just one)

http://stanford.io/1bFkqnM

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MOOC Partners

Why MOOC? Students

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Why MOOC? Institutions

1. Raise Profile / Increase impact

2. Recruitment

3. InnovationMassive open online courses: higher education's digital moment? (UUK, 2013)

http://bit.ly/UUKMOOCS

Why MOOC? Partners1. Educate the world?

2. Revenue?

Signature TrackValidation

$89

3 credits

$7,000

MSc

$ < campus

credits

$150

3-5 credits

For credit

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