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Blackboard Announces New MOOC Platform - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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  • Christopher Sessums on 11 Jul 13
     
    not really a mooc, just a test bes
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Harvard Asks Alumni to Donate Time to Free Online Course - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • it asked alumni who had taken the course at the university to volunteer as online mentors and discussion group managers.
  • About 10 of Dr. Nagy’s former teaching fellows in the class will direct discussions, with help from a larger, still-undetermined number of former students. Both groups will work unpaid; the e-mail to alumni said the work would require three to five hours a week.
  • About a dozen recent former students were recruited before Monday’s e-mail was sent, Ms. Filos said. Those who express interest will be screened, “and they have to be brought up to speed on the material,”
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  • Most of the assessments will be done by fellow students, an approach taken in many other MOOCs
  • Christopher Sessums on 24 Jun 13
     
    tying alumni into online courses. bout time!
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Data from edX's first course offer preliminary insights into online learning - MIT News... - 0 views

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  • in completing homework assignments, users spent more time on video lectures more than any other resource.
  • during an exam, students referred most to the online textbook, which they virtually ignored when doing homework
  • the discussion forum
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  • were the most active group on the discussion forum
  • 90 percent of the clickstream activity on the forum came from users who viewed existing threads without posting comments
  • students who went on to earn certificates in the course
  • social connection
  • the most popular resource for students completing homework assignments
  • Peer interaction seems to improve a student’s chances of success
  • a relationship between achievement and collaboration
  • students who reported working with another student on a problem offline tended to score almost three points higher than someone working alone
  • those who earned certificates were much more active
  • two-thirds of those who registered dropped off almost immediately
  • those who stuck with the course through the second homework assignment, 40 percent went on to earn a certificate
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