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... Passively watching a video doesn’t achieve the same level of rich learning, because it does not require the student to do anything but sit, watch, and hopefully absorb information. The great news is, designing active learning experiences for your MOOC is fun and won’t cost you a thing! ... http://www.scoop.it/t/easy-mooc Via Lucas Gruez, SusanBat 
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Less than 10 percent of MOOC students, on average, complete a course. That's the conclusion of Katy Jordan of Open University, who published her analysis, pul Via Nik Peachey, Peter Mellow
MuuMuuKau's curator insight,
April 7, 2013 9:49 PM
Some main points:
"Less than 10 percent of MOOC students, on average, complete a course. That’s the conclusion of Katy Jordan of Open University"
"But with no negative academic consequences from dropping out, that information is less about the effectiveness of the courses themselves, and more about the reasons people might be enrolling, she said." 
ManufacturingStories's comment,
April 8, 2013 8:33 PM
Pat, thanks for sharing those first hand experiences. Very valuable insights!
Dawne Tortorella's curator insight,
April 10, 2013 8:02 PM
This blog post does discuss some reasons why students enroll in MOOCs, but doesn't really talk much about why they drop out.
One big reason - FRUSTRATION. When a learner gets stuck and can't get individualized meaningful feedback, it creates a failed learning experience. I think we discount how important those personal encounters are in helping learners.
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The infThis hub contains the 2014 student and faculty studies from the EDUCAUSE Technology Research in the Academic Community research series. In 2014, ECAR collaborated with 151 institutions to collect responses from 17,451 faculty respondents across 13 countries about their technology experiences. ECAR also collaborated with 213 institutions to collect responses from 75,306 undergraduate students about their technology experiences.
Peter Mellow's curator insight,
November 4, 2014 9:11 PM
The infographic has many take home messages about our students, their use of technology, and our teaching methods.
The report is a great read.
66% of undergrads haven't heard of MOOCs!
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To established members of the higher education community, the idea of using digital badges to mark academic accomplishments might seem juvenile, like getting a gold star on a kindergarten alphabet test instead of a real grade. However, many of the academics who are tied to technology see badges as harbingers of an educational revolution, and they might be right.
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These insights are pretty obvious when you read them and a lot of MOOCs I have completed have used at least one of these methods.
Some interesting ideas to serve variety in learning