Christian Eggenberger, IBM Switzerland

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Background Story Lessons Learned◦ MOOC as content and collaboration platform◦ Contentwise◦ Cheating

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University: University of Michigan Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Lada AdamicPlatform: Coursera founded by Stanford UniversityLink: SNA Class - Sept 24th 2012 - 8 weeks longSome Statistics:Duration: 8 weeks (new 9 weeks);Avg. invested time per week for the regular certificate: 5 to 6 hoursNumber of reg. students: 61,285;Watched at least one video: 25,151;Tried at least one in-video quiz: 15,391;Submitted at least one assignment: 6,919;Took the final exam: 2,417; Earned the regular certificate:1303;Submitted a final project: 145;Earned the ‘with distinction’ version of the certificate: 107

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The usability of Coursera is simple and straight forward

Coursera was nearly all the time performant For students with lower bandwidth the movies and

documents could be downloaded at the beginning of each week

The possibility to meet like-minded people in meetups is an excellent idea, but my family already had to suffer enough during the 8 weeksLe

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Although we only scratched the surface of SNA, ◦ I am able to judge by eye a network◦ I have an idea of the immense possible applications

However, I learned to use new open source tools As in a traditional class room:◦ The student has to bring some ambition and interest◦ The teacher and student should be on the same page◦ The student has to fulfill the key requirements

The sub-title were very useful for not native English speakers The SNA class was mainly a teacher-centered teaching, which did

not bother me The crowd of students can influence the program flow, but you

have to raise your voice e.g.:◦ Extend the homework deadline due to unplanned maintenance work caused

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Thanks to Professor Lada for a fascinating course Hi Dr. Lada Adamic. Once again thanks for a wonderful learning experience. I feel so glade to reach to the end of

this cool course. I feel sorry that i didn't receive my certificate. WHY? Because of internet, i had to attend this course “under fire ". YES, i live in SYRIA, and I'm sure you know what

happen in my country. We’re under fire all the time, most of the time the internet is off. Many times, i attended the quiz and exam with a very slow connection; therefore i had to answer all weeks

together ONLY when i have connection. Best luck to all those who get their certificates. and hard luck for those in my show.

I worked hard, studied, learnt, but it doesn't seem there is a certification for me and I don't understand the reason.

You gave me 51.0% and i don't understand why? I've got: Week 2 Quiz: … Score: 6.00 / 10.00 … Short-form assignments - (You didn’t give me any score, WHY? ) … Final Exam - …. You got a score of 40.00 out of 100.00 Please, let me know what happened. I still wait for my certification. Thanks a lot. Regards xyz

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(Realtime) translation A framework curriculum (industry requested

profile) A “topxxxxx” platform for testing and

hardening my new gained skills 100% accepted certificate …

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mooc.ca – a Meta Search MOOC engine The Minerva Project – a Hybrid MOOC Center for Digital Education MOOCs Factory – EPFL In 15 Years From Now Half of US Universities May

Be in Bankruptcy TED talks – Daphne Koller co-founder of coursera Charlie Rose – Online Education Moodle* community – CMS, LMS, VLE

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* Moodle = Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment