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Patrice Prusko

MIT MOOC | Dave's Whiteboard - 0 views

  • ORIENT: Find out where stuff is. Then remember where it is. DECLARE: Set up a place to record and share your thoughts. NETWORK: Follow others;  interact with them. CLUSTER: Once you’ve gotten your feet wet, get together with people who share your interests. FOCUS: “Halfway through,” Cormier says, “your mind starts to wander.” So have a way to apply what you’ve been learning.
  • video by Dave Cormier
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    Good 4 minute video on how to be successful in a MOOC
Patrice Prusko

http://www.rpajournal.com/dev/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/SF2.pdf - 0 views

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    Studying Learning in the Worldwide Classroom Research into edX's First MOOC
Patrice Prusko

Who Performs the Best in Online Classes? | minimaxir | Max Woolf's Blog - 2 views

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    At the end of May, Harvard and MIT jointly released a dataset containing statistics about their online courses in the Academic Year of 2013. This Person-Course De-Identified dataset contains 641,138 events, chronicling 476,532 students who have taken up to 13 unique courses from a variety of topics: However, this assortment of courses is not a substitution for a typical college education, as the vast majority of students only take one class.
Patrice Prusko

Why We Watch: Lessons from MIT's Study of MOOCs and Engagement | EdSurge News - 1 views

  • The biggest takeaway: Keep it short. Student engagement, measured by how long a student watched each video and whether they attempted to answer post-video questions, dropped sharply at the six minute mark.
  • Videos with a personal feel (filmed in an informal setting) and videos that were designed with the MOOC format in mind fared better than polished videos that simply chopped up a pre-recorded lecture.
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    "The biggest takeaway: Keep it short. Student engagement, measured by how long a student watched each video and whether they attempted to answer post-video questions, dropped sharply at the six minute mark."
Patrice Prusko

HarvardX and MITx: The First Year of Open Online Courses, Fall 2012-Summer 2013 by Andr... - 1 views

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    download PDF of the paper
Patrice Prusko

Online Learning Research Wall - Google Sheets - 0 views

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    online research wall
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