Beyond the Hype Where MOOCs and OnCampus Meet

Beyond the Hype: Where MOOCs and On-Campus Meet Vivek Goel Chief Academic Strategist, Coursera

• 15% of Coursera learners are currently enrolled in undergrad degree programs • 70% are over 30 yrs old • 50% of enrollments in courses delivering careerrelevant skills Our Learners 2

Average completion rates Retention and Intent

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55% of online degree students surveyed said a University of London MOOC influenced them to apply to the school’s degree program. London recruited >100 students or more from its MOOCs Average program costs £ 4, 000 and £ 5, 000 to complete Penn State said that it had seen a 24% increase in enrollments in the Online Geography since starting a MOOC in the same subject 5 out of 300 students said the Coursera MOOC was the main reason they applied to program, while 6 more said the MOOC was a significant driver. Applicants to the Music Technology MFA program tripled Several students applied to the MFA with their MOOC projects Cal. Arts admitted one student from the MOOC, covering an estimated 50% of MOOC costs

Teaching at Scale

Wrong student answers Learning is often a black box in the classroom, MOOCs allow us to see what students are doing. With hundreds of thousands of students, if there’s a correlation to be found, we’ll find it. ” Pavel Pevzner UC San Diego Ignacio Martinez University of Virginia We now see the huge contribution a MOOC provides to professors in our attempts to improve both our classes and textbooks. Where else could we get a gold mine of comments contributing to further improvements of our courses? Any serious textbook author. . should run a textbook-based MOOC first. Big Data in Teaching

Students from 27 Universities in the Universitas 21 network will take Edinburgh’s Critical Thinking course together this fall Inter-University Collaboration

The University Revisited

“College is a place where a professor’s lecture notes go straight to the students’ lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either. ” Edwin Emery Slosson Transforming On-Campus Teaching

Spring 2011 - Traditional Fall 2012 – Blended Learning Comparison of ECE course, University of Wisconsin Madison Flipping the Classroom

Grand Prize Winner: Balesh Jindal Project-Based Learning in the Real World

Available, Accessible On-Demand Content

What is a specialization? Course series: a series of short courses in a high-demand field Well packaged, efficient unit of knowledge Capstone Project: an applied project Applying learning to real world scenarios Series of courses with real-life applications

For specializations in high demand areas: Across the board: >10, 000 learners enrolled in Sig. Track enrollments 2 -3 X From the Android specialization: 60% increase in Sig. Track after same course is part of a specialization of learners had not heard of Vanderbilt and Maryland Sig. Track conversion Brand awareness A few early results

Specializations learner motivations Learner motivations 60% of learners said that their motivation in taking the specialization was to demonstrate mastery through the capstone project and the Specialization certificate Highly-valued Capstone Project 74% of learners valued the capstone project more than other content courses. The reason: they wanted to use the capstone project to solve an industry problem and gain practical experience Industry involvement 77% of learners valued capstones projects cocreated with industry and instructors over capstone projects that were created by just instructors.

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