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.
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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Feedback from the 2009 MLE Evaluation highlighted that Edinburgh Napier students
expect all their modules to be supported online, and that they value a balance
of face-to-face contact with
online interaction. While few modules or programmes can be taught fully online,
an underlying principle of the benchmark is that all modules can adopt
technology to benefit some aspect of the learning, teaching and assessment
experience. This could involve the use of technology to: