Beyond the Hype: Where MOOCs and On-Campus Meet Vivek Goel Chief Academic Strategist, Coursera.
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Transcript of 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
2Our Learners
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.
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.
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
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
Applicants to the Music Technology MFA program tripled
Several students applied to the MFA with their MOOC projects
CalArts admitted one student from the MOOC, covering an estimated 50% of MOOC costs
Applicants to the Music Technology MFA program tripled
Several students applied to the MFA with their MOOC projects
CalArts admitted one student from the MOOC, covering an estimated 50% of MOOC costs
Wrong student answers
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
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.”
Inter-University Collaboration
Students from 27 Universities in the Universitas 21 network will take Edinburgh’s Critical Thinking course together this fall
“College is a place where a professor’s lecture notes go straight to the students’ lecture notes,
Edwin Emery Slosson
without passing through the brains of either.”
Transforming On-Campus Teaching
Comparison of ECE course, University of Wisconsin Madison
Spring 2011 - Traditional Fall 2012 – Blended Learning
Flipping the Classroom
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
>10,000
learners enrolled in SigTrack
2-3Xincrease in SigTrack after same course is
part of a specialization
60% of learners had not
heard of Vanderbilt and MarylandSigTrack
enrollments SigTrack conversion
Brand awareness
For specializations in high demand areas: Across the board:
From the Android specialization:
A few early results
Specializations learner motivations
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.
Learner motivations
Highly-valued Capstone Project
Industry involvement