Beyond the Hype: Where MOOCs and On-Campus

MeetVivek GoelChief 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 career-relevant skills

2Our Learners

Average completion rates

Retention and Intent

Visibility

Coursera-hosted class on the first page of Google

search

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.

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.

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

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

Applicants to the Music Technology MFA program tripled

Several students applied to the MFA with their MOOC projects

CalArts admitted one student from the MOOC, covering an estimated 50% of MOOC costs

Applicants to the Music Technology MFA program tripled

Several students applied to the MFA with their MOOC projects

CalArts admitted one student from the MOOC, covering an estimated 50% of MOOC costs

Teaching at Scale

Wrong student answers

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

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.” 

Inter-University Collaboration

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

The University Revisited

“College is a place where a professor’s lecture notes go straight to the students’ lecture notes,

Edwin Emery Slosson

without passing through the brains of either.”

Transforming On-Campus Teaching

Comparison of ECE course, University of Wisconsin Madison

Spring 2011 - Traditional Fall 2012 – Blended Learning

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

Capstone Project: an

applied project

Well packaged, efficient unit of knowledge

Applying learning to real world scenarios

Series of courses with real-life applications

>10,000

learners enrolled in SigTrack

2-3Xincrease in SigTrack after same course is

part of a specialization

60% of learners had not

heard of Vanderbilt and MarylandSigTrack

enrollments SigTrack conversion

Brand awareness

For specializations in high demand areas: Across the board:

From the Android specialization:

A few early results

Specializations 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

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

77% of learners valued capstones projects co-

created with industry and instructors over capstone projects that were created by just

instructors.

Learner motivations

Highly-valued Capstone Project

Industry involvement

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