RESOURCE: edX president on how MOOCs will change higher education
Agarwal kicks the panel off by explaining that the world has been changing at an unprecedented rate–but classrooms haven’t. Technology that was new ten years ago is already outdated today but, for some reason, the learning experience is the same as it was 50 years ago. Students still congregate in a lecture hall to listen to a professor deliver knowledge to them. Agarwal believes MOOCs can change that.
Agarwal show the audience a series of statistic from the first edX MOOC, which he co-taught (figures are rounded):
155,000 enrolled in first course
26,300 tried the first problem set
10,500 made it to the midterm
9,300 passed the midterm
8,200 took the final
7,200 received certification
via edX president on how MOOCs will change higher education | Education Dive.
Written by Brian S McGowan, PhD
Dr. McGowan has served in leadership positions in numerous medical educational organizations and commercial supporters and is a Fellow of the Alliance (FACEhp). He founded the Outcomes Standardization Project, launched and hosted the Alliance Podcast, and most recently launched and hosts the JCEHP Emerging Best Practices in CPD podcast. In 2012 he Co-Founded ArcheMedX, Inc, a healthcare informatics and e-learning company to apply his research in practice.
