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Combining MOOC Student Patterns Graphic with Stanford Analysis

By Phil Hill. Posted on October 1, 2013

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In part 1, part 2, and part 3 of this series of posts on MOOC student patterns, I shared a description of five student patterns emerging from open-enrollment MOOCs (excluding those with an associated student fee) based on anecdotal data.  In part 4 I compared the overall course completion pattern against an MIT study of the first edX […]

MOOC Discussion Forums: barrier to engagement?

By Phil Hill. Posted on September 16, 2013

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Robert McGuire wrote an article for Campus Technology, Building a Sense of Community in MOOCs, that touches on an important topic – is the centralized discussion forum a barrier to student engagement? But more students can also mean more isolation within the crowd. “Online classes can be really lonely places for students if they don’t feel […]

Effort and Engagement

By Michael Feldstein. Posted on September 12, 2013

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I’ve been thinking a little more this morning about the language used by the researchers in the SJSU Udacity report. They focus a lot on student “effort.” But it’s also pretty common in education to talk about “engagement.” From a technical perspective, the researchers chose the better word. “Effort” is meant to be an observable […]

What Blackboard, Desire2Learn, and Udacity Should Learn from SJSU

By Michael Feldstein. Posted on September 12, 2013

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As Phil noted in his analysisof the SJSU report, one of the main messages of the report seems to be that some of what we already know about performance and critical success factors for more traditional online courses also seem to apply to xMOOCs. But how good is the ed tech industry at taking advantage […]

SJSU research report confirms MOOCs are online courses

By Phil Hill. Posted on September 12, 2013

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By reading the SJSU research report (download actual report here), one item that really hits me is that however different the scaling model is for MOOCs, they are still online courses and have similar success factors. I am not trying to minimize the value of the report by the title of this post, because there is […]

SJSU releases NSF-funded research report on Udacity pilot

By Phil Hill. Posted on September 12, 2013

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Back in late July we found out that San Jose State University was pausing their SJSU Plus pilot program using Udacity for-credit MOOCs due to low passing rates. While there was fairly extensive media coverage of the story broken by Inside Higher Ed, there was the promise of a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded research […]

SJSU Plus Udacity Pilots: Lack of transparency in describing data

By Phil Hill. Posted on August 29, 2013

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Alternate Headline: “Our Long National Nightmare is Over – SJSU and Udacity solve problem of college graduates being able to pass remedial math” The more I read on SJSU’s announcement on the pilot program, the more troubled I am with the lack of clear description of student population change (I wrote briefly about the change in student […]
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