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Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 6:37 am
The background of the first MOOC
Peter Norvig explains in a Ted talk what the background of his online course was. Despite the fact that he would like to unleash a major educational revolution, it is striking that he simply applies 'old school' pedagogy to increase the learning effect. Such as fixed start and end times, so that students are all working on the same theory at the same time. Because you can't discuss with 10,000 students in a classroom, they also encouraged online forums, where students can help each other. After all, you can often learn a lot from your fellow students.
A drive also seems to be the analysis of big data . “We collect thousands of interactions per student per class and we can analyze them and learn from them, and experiment. And that’s where the real revolution comes from.”
Just as Amazon uses algorithms to predict customer online behavior, the idea is that historical metrics about student behavior can be used to make predictions.
Low success rates
MOOCs are a form of distance learning. This form norway phone data of learning traditionally has many students who start, but few students who actually complete the course. Kathy Jordan, a student at the Open University, has made an interesting overview of the data from 24 MOOCs.
This graph shows that the size varies between 10,000 and 100,000 students per MOOC. With an average of around 50,000 students. The success rate varies between 1% and 20%. These high dropout rates are unacceptable in Dutch HBO education. Now, it may not be the right way to look at the dropout rates. Because many students who start it actually have no intention of finishing the MOOC.
The idea is that the millions of third world students who do not have access to good education will benefit from following a MOOC, simply because there is no alternative to education. In reality, it is unclear how many brilliant third world students actually follow such a MOOC. You do need to have internet, speak English and have some knowledge of mathematics. So these will not be the poorest students.
Peter Norvig explains in a Ted talk what the background of his online course was. Despite the fact that he would like to unleash a major educational revolution, it is striking that he simply applies 'old school' pedagogy to increase the learning effect. Such as fixed start and end times, so that students are all working on the same theory at the same time. Because you can't discuss with 10,000 students in a classroom, they also encouraged online forums, where students can help each other. After all, you can often learn a lot from your fellow students.
A drive also seems to be the analysis of big data . “We collect thousands of interactions per student per class and we can analyze them and learn from them, and experiment. And that’s where the real revolution comes from.”
Just as Amazon uses algorithms to predict customer online behavior, the idea is that historical metrics about student behavior can be used to make predictions.
Low success rates
MOOCs are a form of distance learning. This form norway phone data of learning traditionally has many students who start, but few students who actually complete the course. Kathy Jordan, a student at the Open University, has made an interesting overview of the data from 24 MOOCs.
This graph shows that the size varies between 10,000 and 100,000 students per MOOC. With an average of around 50,000 students. The success rate varies between 1% and 20%. These high dropout rates are unacceptable in Dutch HBO education. Now, it may not be the right way to look at the dropout rates. Because many students who start it actually have no intention of finishing the MOOC.
The idea is that the millions of third world students who do not have access to good education will benefit from following a MOOC, simply because there is no alternative to education. In reality, it is unclear how many brilliant third world students actually follow such a MOOC. You do need to have internet, speak English and have some knowledge of mathematics. So these will not be the poorest students.