Basic Writing MOOC
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Mt. San Jacinto College http://msjc.edu Crafting an Effective Writer: http://coursera.org/course/basicwriting Location of Slides: http://tinyurl.com/mooc-cenic Handout: http://tinyurl.com/mooc-cenic- handout Patricia James [email protected]
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Transcript of Basic Writing MOOC
Mt. San Jacinto College http://msjc.eduCrafting an Effective Writer: http://coursera.org/course/basicwriting
Location of Slides:
http://tinyurl.com/mooc-cenic
Handout: http://tinyurl.com/mooc-cenic-handout
Patricia [email protected]
There’s always a story…..
Great partners! Coursera and Gates
Development time: 8 QUICK months!
Cost: $65,000! $50k from Gates, $15k in-kind
Additional help: 7 peer writing tutors
Total: 14 people in the discussions! (session 1)
Session 2: 5 faculty/staff, 2 peer writing tutors, 10 Community TA’s
45, 089 enrolled
29, 195 actively participated
11,147 students completed the surveys
10,214 attempted the first quiz
8,091 accessed final week of content
3,774 attempted the final quiz
2,749 earned a certificate of completion• These numbers were from the first class offered May 2013,
• numbers are similar for 2nd session offered October 2013
Item N % Partic. % Regist.Standard Course Participation Measures
Registered Student 48,174
Participating Students 34,952 73%
Completed Course (>80%) 3,753 11% 8%
Completed w/Distinction (>95%) 1,101 3% 2%
Patterns of Participation
Disengaged 29,817 62%
Declining 6,919 20% 14%
Lurking 5,919 17% 12%
Persisting 5,519 16% 11%
Information from the second session.
As a pre-Assessment activity
As a petition for English placement
As a brush-up for students while in writing classes
As a brush-up for students who don’t/can’t enroll in an English class
As a resource for flipped/blended classrooms
To become a better writer
3%
2% 2%
4%
22%
50%
17%
Reason for EnrollingGet a jumpstart on college
while I’m still in high
school.
Prepare to take the
community college
assessment test (you have
not taken it yet).
Improve my score on the
community college
assessment test (you took it
and want to improve your
score).
Number=15, 457
2nd session
50%
20%
17%
5%
6%
2%
Entry Survey Participants by Ed StatusNot a student--
goal: to learn and
personal growthNot a student-
goal: career
enhancementStudent in BA or
university
institutionCC student
High school
2nd session
166 Countries Represented 70% Students from outside U.S. 33% had never taken an online class, 51% had
taken 1-3 online classes Female 65% Male 32% (some chose not to
answer) Among Californians (927 respondents), the
participation rate of community college students was much higher than among the general population of survey respondents (25% in California compared to 5% overall).
30% between 25 and 34 years old
20% between 18 and 24 years old
18% between 35 and 44 years old
11% were 50 or older
5% were 18 or younger
“Learning knows no age”
End of week 1 “pop” video: http://youtu.be/9a6h-mgGbCI
Week 2 lecture Video: http://youtu.be/cVtyZsEG7sw
Our farewell video: http://youtu.be/PYZVZEtWUjo
Approved by Quality Matters (score: 95)
To enroll in the course, please visit
http://coursera.org/course/basicwriting
