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Beyond the Hype: Where MOOCs and On-Campus Meet. Vivek Goel Chief Academic Strategist, Coursera. 15% of Coursera learners are currently enrolled in undergrad degree programs 70% are over 30 yrs old 50% of enrollments in courses delivering career-relevant skills. Our Learners.
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Beyond the Hype: Where MOOCs and On-Campus Meet Vivek Goel Chief Academic Strategist, Coursera
15% of Coursera learners are currently enrolled in undergrad degree programs • 70% are over 30 yrs old • 50% of enrollments in courses delivering career-relevant skills Our Learners
Average completion rates Retention and Intent
Coursera-hosted class on the first page of Google search Visibility
55% of online degree students surveyed said a University of London MOOC influenced them to apply to the school’s degree program. London recruited >100 students or more from its MOOCs Average program costs £4,000 and £5,000 to complete Penn State said that it had seen a 24% increase in enrollments in the Online Geography since starting a MOOC in the same subject 5 out of 300 students said the Coursera MOOC was the main reason they applied to program, while 6 more said the MOOC was a significant driver. Applicants to the Music Technology MFA program tripled Several students applied to the MFA with their MOOC projects CalArtsadmitted one student from the MOOC, covering an estimated 50% of MOOC costs
Wrong student answers Learning is often a black box in the classroom, MOOCs allow us to see what students are doing. With hundreds of thousands of students, if there’s a correlation to be found, we’ll find it.” Pavel Pevzner UC San Diego Ignacio Martinez University of Virginia We now see the huge contribution a MOOC provides to professors in our attempts to improve both our classes and textbooks. Where else could we get a gold mine of comments contributing to further improvements of our courses? Any serious textbook author .. should run a textbook-based MOOC first. Big Data in Teaching
Students from 27 Universities in the Universitas 21 network will take Edinburgh’s Critical Thinking course together this fall Inter-University Collaboration
without passing through the brains of either.” “College is a place where a professor’s lecture notes go straight to the students’ lecture notes, Edwin Emery Slosson Transforming On-Campus Teaching
Spring 2011 - Traditional Fall 2012 – Blended Learning Comparison of ECE course, University of Wisconsin Madison Flipping the Classroom
Grand Prize Winner: Balesh Jindal Project-Based Learning in the Real World
What is a specialization? Course series: a series of short courses in a high-demand field Capstone Project: an applied project Well packaged, efficient unit of knowledge Applying learning to real world scenarios Series of courses with real-life applications
For specializations in high demand areas: From the Android specialization: Across the board: >10,000 learners enrolled in SigTrack 2-3X increase in SigTrack after same course is part of a specialization 60% of learners had not heard of Vanderbilt and Maryland SigTrack enrollments SigTrack conversion Brand awareness A few early results
Specializations learner motivations Highly-valued Capstone Project Learner motivations Industry involvement 60% of learners said that their motivation in taking the specialization was to demonstrate mastery through the capstone project and the Specialization certificate 74% of learners valued the capstone project more than other content courses. The reason: they wanted to use the capstone project to solve an industry problem and gain practical experience 77% of learners valued capstones projects co-created with industry and instructors over capstone projects that were created by just instructors.