{"id":49509,"date":"2015-04-07T17:22:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T21:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=49509"},"modified":"2015-04-07T17:24:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T21:24:29","slug":"who-is-taking-moocs-teachers-says-mit-harvard-study-plus-other-mooc-related-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2015\/04\/07\/who-is-taking-moocs-teachers-says-mit-harvard-study-plus-other-mooc-related-items\/","title":{"rendered":"“Who is taking MOOCs? Teachers, says MIT-Harvard study”; plus other MOOC-related items"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who is taking MOOCs? Teachers, says MIT-Harvard study<\/strong> <\/a>— from pbs.org by Kirk Carapezza, WGBH<\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

A new MIT-Harvard study released on [April 1st] finds that nearly 40 percent of learners who take open online courses are teachers. That finding has researchers wondering whether they can better design online courses once predicted to upend students\u2019 experience to meet teachers\u2019 needs.<\/p>\n

The study<\/a> describes two years of open online courses launched on MIT and Harvard\u2019s non-profit online initiative, edX. It explores 68 certificate courses and 1.7 million participants.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know who these people are,\u201d said Harvard Associate Professor Andrew Ho, co-author of the study.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

HarvardX and MITx: Two Years of Open Online Courses Fall 2012-Summer 2014<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Abstract:<\/strong>
\nWhat happens when well-known universities offer online courses, assessments, and certificates of completion for free? Early descriptions of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have emphasized large enrollments, low certification rates, and highly educated registrants. We use data from two years and 68 open online courses offered by Harvard University (via HarvardX) and MIT (via MITx) to broaden the scope of answers to this question. We describe trends over this two-year span, depict participant intent using comprehensive survey instruments, and chart course participation pathways using network analysis. We find that overall participation in our MOOCs remains substantial and that the average growth has been steady. We explore how diverse audiences \u2014 including explorers, teachers-as-learners, and residential students \u2014 provide opportunities to advance the principles on which HarvardX and MITx were founded: access, research, and residential education.<\/p>\n

Keywords:<\/b>
\nMOOC, massive open online course, HarvardX, MITx, edX, online learning, distance education, higher education, residential learning<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"MIT-MOOCs-4-1-15\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n

Study on MOOCs provides new insights on an evolving space<\/strong><\/a> — from newsoffice.mit.edu
\nFindings suggest many teachers enroll, learner intentions matter, and cost boosts completion rates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

[On April 1], a joint MIT and Harvard University research team published one of the largest investigations of massive open online courses (MOOCs)\u00a0to date. Building on these researchers\u2019 prior work \u2014 a January 2014 report<\/a> describing the first year of open online courses launched on edX, a nonprofit learning platform\u00a0founded by the two institutions \u2014 the latest effort incorporates another year of data, bringing the total to nearly 70 courses in subjects from programming to poetry.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe explored 68 certificate-granting courses, 1.7 million participants, 10 million participant-hours, and 1.1 billion participant-logged events,\u201d says Andrew Ho, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The research team also used surveys to \u00adgain additional information about participants\u2019 backgrounds and their intentions.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

August LearnMoodle MOOC is now enrolling<\/a><\/strong> — from moodlenews.com by Joseph Thibault<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

9 free MOOCs for corporate training<\/strong><\/a> — from elearningindustry.com<\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

MOOCs for corporate training<\/strong><\/a> offer a wide range of benefits but due to the broad range of courses available today, finding the right ones for skill set development and corporate training<\/strong><\/a> can often be a time consuming and frustrating task. To make the process easier, I\u2019d like to share some of the top MOOCs for corporate training that you may want to consider.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Over 120 MOOCs and courses coming up in the month of April 2015<\/strong><\/a> — from edtechreview.in<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

From 2014:
\n<\/em>Ten big reasons for the rise of corporate MOOCs<\/strong><\/a> — from trainingzone.co.uk by Donald Clark<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The increasing popularity of MOOCs, open-education resources such as OpenStax College, and freely available course content on platforms such as iTunes U brings an incredible opportunity for high school teachers and college instructors to collaborate and enhance each other’s instruction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

– from Mind the Gap: Connecting K\u201312 and Higher Education
\nEducators to Improve the Student Experience<\/a> –from educause.edu
\nby Matthew W. Stoltzfus, Ben Scragg, and Cory Tressler<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who is taking MOOCs? Teachers, says MIT-Harvard study — from pbs.org by Kirk Carapezza, WGBH Excerpt: A new MIT-Harvard study released on [April 1st] finds that nearly 40 percent of learners who take open online courses are teachers. That finding has researchers wondering whether they can better design online courses once predicted to upend students\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,200,346,505,62,269,89,118,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporate-business-world","category-corporate-universities","category-distance-education","category-mooc-massive-open-online-course","category-online-learning","category-professional-development","category-teachers","category-training-corporate-universities","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49509"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49794,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49509\/revisions\/49794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}