What does it take to produce 10 online courses in a few short months? A new report from Duke takes a careful look at the process of simultaneously developing two …
I recently attended the third annual Learning with MOOCs conference and heard an interesting presentation by William Eimicke, Adam Stepan and Sandesh Tuladhar from Columbia University. They worked with a team …
Research on online education has benefitted greatly from MOOCs. Because MOOCs are very large classes, often with global reach, research teams are able to take advantage of the data they …
Are you a Duke faculty member who wants to do research using data from millions of people around the world? We have survey data available from over 50,000 people worldwide who …
A Sankey Diagram is a way to show how things move from one state or value to another. They can be really great ways to show how something changes over …
Massive Open Online Courses are helping to democratize learning by supplementing traditional forms of higher education, according to a new Duke University study. A study of 13 free, open-access digital …
In Spring 2013 and Spring 2014, Duke offered a MOOC called “English Composition I: Achieving Excellence” taught by Professor Denise Comer. One of Professor Comer’s goals in teaching the course …
In the Spring 2014 semester, Duke University offered the second session of Medical Neuroscience, a Massive Open Online Class (MOOC) available on the Coursera platform. The class is taught by …
We are learning more and more about who enrolls in Massive Open Online Classes (MOOCs) and how those students behave. For example, Harvard and MIT recently released de-identified data from …
There has been a lot of discussion about MOOC completion, most of which has focused on completion rates: what percent of people complete a MOOC, and how should we calculate …
