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Kolowich, S. (2012) Who takes MOOCs? Inside Higher Education, June 5 Article about a survey of 14,000 participants in Stanford's Andrew Ng's course on machine learning. It should be noted that the response rate is around 14% of all those that enrolled. The most common reason was that participants were curious about the topic. NOTE from poster - take a look at Coursera as well.
Innovative Teaching Exchange Welcome to the MAA Online Innovative Teaching Exchange! The purpose of the Exchange is to allow people teaching mathematics at the college level to share new methods they have tried, invented, or discovered, which they feel help the students learn better and/or more easily.
however, this places a greater responsibility on the student
student must
be well organized, self-motivated, and possess a high degree of time
management skills in order to keep up with the pace of the course
For
these reasons, online education is not appropriate for younger students
(i.e. elementary or secondary school age), and other students who are
dependent learners and have difficulty assuming responsibilities required
by the online paradigm.
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