Learning Objectives in MOOCs
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 …
Online Teaching: New Skills for CIT’s Bass Online Apprentices
For the past 10 years, online learning has experienced consistent growth in the U.S. with the number of online students reaching 6.7 million in 2012 (Babson Research Group 2012 Survey …
Coursera Forums: Why Students Don’t Like To Have Graded Discussions
In several Coursera classes, including two from Duke University, course instructors and staff have attempted to motivate students to interact in the forums through a participation component to the final …
Bass Online Apprentices Share the MOOC Student Experience
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) offer the potential for a student learning experience that is collaborative, engaging and global. What is distinctive about the student experience in a massive open …
Students in Duke’s Data Analysis and Statistical Inference MOOC
The Data Analysis and Statistical Inference Coursera MOOC is huge! There are over 85,000 students in the class from all over the world. The majority of people are participating in the course because it teaches useful skills. Read more to learn why students take the course, how the course design and resources help students learn, and read many student reactions.
Marine Megafauna: By the Numbers
Our pre-course survey results are in and all indications are that Marine Megafauna students are a diverse group! The first chart below shows the age distribution of students who took …
Marine Megafauna MOOC and the Public Library of Science (PLoS) collection
Marine Megafauna MOOC A new Duke University MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) titled Marine Megafauna | An Introduction to Marine Science and Conservation has been running since February 3rd, 2014. Dr. Dave …
Human Physiology Session 3: Student Survey Results
We are about one month in to the third session of Duke’s MOOC on Human Physiology, a popular course with over 32,000 students enrolled, and are excited to release some …
Medical Neuroscience Session 2: Who Enrolled and Why?
The results from the pre-course survey for the second run of Duke’s Medical Neuroscience MOOC are in! Of the over 5000 students who completed the survey, 8% previously completed the …
Duke launches new MOOC Specialization on Reasoning, Data Analysis, and Writing
Participants who complete a new MOOC multi-series course track offered by Duke on Coursera, called Reasoning, Data Analysis, and Writing, will be awarded a certificate through a new program called …