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How was it? The UK's first Coursera Moocs assessed | News | Times Higher Education - 0 views

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  • attracted 308,000 students,
  • The programmes, which ran over five weeks, had an estimated average completion rate of about 12 per cent, while early figures suggest that each Mooc cost about £30,000 from development to delivery.
  • University of Edinburgh’s
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  • Mooc cost about £30,00
  • From August 2012 until the course went live in January, Knox estimates he was spending about eight hours a week on Mooc-related activity. During the five weeks of the course itself, this figure doubled, he says.
  • but we thought that once it was up and running, it would kind of run itself. That’s the impression we got from Coursera - just wind it up and watch it go. However, we found that we were spending a lot of time monitoring the course while it was going.”
  • he decision proved unpopular with some students, Knox says, as they had been expecting to see professors imparting knowledge as they would in a lecture theatre.
  • estimates that some 2,000 students completed the final assignment.
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