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#Moocs data offers promise of perfect teaching One day, Sebastian Thrun ran a simple and surprising experiment on a class of students that changed his ideas about how they were learning.
The students were doing an online course provided by Udacity, an educational organisation that Thrun co-founded in 2011.
Artificial intelligence underpinning online courses can log every click and keyboard stroke a student makes, and this is revealing patterns of learning behaviour that are difficult, if not impossible,
This wealth of data is only available thanks to the recent rise in popularity of Moocs (massive open online courses),
These online courses, hosted by the likes of Udacity, Coursera and edx, have been the subject of much hype in recent months,
as institutions debate whether this will save or endanger the traditional university degree. But arguably the real novelty they offer has been missed.
Many critics dismiss Moocs as simply online videos of lectures and so nothing new. Yet Moocs greatest impact may come from
what they can teach the teachers: offering a unique opportunity to monitor student behaviour during lessons in unprecedented detail.
says Chuong Do, a software engineer and leader of the data analytics team at Coursera. For starters, such data helps Coursera group participants into different types of student,
such as those who watch all the lectures and complete all the assignments, others who lose interest over time,
Coursera has discovered there is also a group of students who complete all of the homework assignments without watching any of the lectures. his was unexpected,
but maybe there are people who are interested really in earning a Coursera certificate, or who have read the material already
For example, the lecture videos that make up the bulk of teaching in Moocs often contain an inset of the instructor in one corner of the slides.
000 participants on a Coursera course over a ten-week period, he found that students fell into two camps.
Mooc data is also revealing how to best motivate students online. Joseph Jay Williams and other researchers at Stanford university
A similar attempt by Coursera to encourage students to finish their course by reminding them of what homework assignments they had yet to complete
4. 6 million students took a college-level online course during fall 2008, up 17 percent from a year earlier, according to the Sloan Survey of Online learning.
At the University of Iowa, as many as 10 percent of 14,000 liberal arts undergraduates take an online course each semester,
so by an online course Kristin Joos built interactivity into her Principles of Sociology course to keep students engaged.
In the 10 or so online courses she has taken in her four years, t all the same, she said. o comments.
#U s. State department and Coursera partner to support free education in over 30 countries The State departments goal is having more foreigners learn English and experience the U s. education system.
U s. embassies around the world this fall are hosting weekly discussions for students enrolled in free online courses, called MOOCS, in partnership with Coursera, the Silicon valley-based platform with over 5 million users.
which is running the##MOOC Camp##program.####We saw MOOCS as this great tool to achieve a number of goals,
##she says.####It gave me, like, a taste of what is first world education, ##said Alejandra B,
She started the MOOC Camp in September, meeting weekly with other students who were taking#Foundations of Business Strategy,
a Coursera course taught by Michael Lenox at the University of Virginia s Darden School of business.
In addition to going over the materials in the MOOC facilitator Yuki Kondo-Shah, an assistant cultural affairs officer in her first post, arranged video chats with U s. entrepreneurs,
##I ve been fascinated with MOOCS ever since they came out, ##says Kondo-Shah.####I thought this would be a great opportunity to work with Bolivian students
Every participant in a##MOOC Camp##will meet with an advisor from State seducationusa#program, which helps international students go to U s. colleges.
For its part, Coursera is providing training resources for facilitators. It will be tracking students success through the platform.
Increasing student success through this so-called##blended learning##approach is pretty important for Coursera and the other MOOC platforms.
Globally, 90%of those who enroll in the online courses created by professors at universities like Stanford, Pennsylvania State university, Wesleyan,
Although MOOC platforms have partner institutions located around the world, the very idea of MOOCS has been labeled###cultural imperialism###for broadcasting courses created at elite institutions.
This impression can only be enhanced when a MOOC program is sponsored literally by the U s. government for U s. diplomatic reasons.
Also, MOOC Camp is running in some countries not known for freedom of speech like China and the former Soviet republic of Georgia,
and it ll be interesting to see how the American liberal arts approach to classroom discussion flies in such settingsespecially
Other online education providers, such as Coursera,#are designing their own certifications, which take about the same amount of time,
I ve been taking the data science track at both Coursera and Udacity and comparing it to the master s in mathematical behavioral sciences
On many levels, data science at Udacity and Coursera are superior. It s completely up-to-date with the latest software, it s problem-based, much (much) cheaper,
Through startups like Coursera and Udacity Silicon valley entrepreneurs groomed at Stanford and Google have attracted much attention
and planning to continue its involvement with edx classes. On Knezevic end, at the Boston office, it all about software development, tailoring features to customer needs a welcome challenge for the longtime researcher. n academia,
There students and monks will be able to learn from materials such as lectures on MIT s Opencourseware (with added Tibetan subtitles.
#When Actors Replace Instructors as On-Camera Talent Instructors have typically been the on-screen talent for the recorded lectures used in online courses.
Mundane 20-to 40-minute lecture videos of a"talking head"no longer provided a learning experience that professionals taking online courses would tolerate.
The Engineering Professional Education program provides non-credit online courses designed for"lifelong learners, "led by instructors who come from the field."
Landing a gig to caption videos from five MIT Opencourseware (OCW) classes, the students were able to caption 100 hours of content in a fraction the time of manual captioning.
and other universities, to online learning platforms, including edx. These transcripts scroll along with video, highlighting text that's spoken,
It not a coincidence that 2012 brought both the beginning of the end of the MOOC and the start of the ALP:
MOOCS literally offered college classes on the internet. This seemed promising, and The New york times declared 2012 he year of the MOOC.
Indeed, it lasted almost exactly one year, and by 2013, Udacity CEO had declared the product ousy.
Hybrid Online/Offline Institutions Codecademy and Coursera are based two web ed-tech entrants that have created subsequently physical learning environments.
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