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Romanian Tutors and Students
Interaction with MOOCs
Workshop “Opening Up Education”, March 13th 2015,
Timisoara, Romania
Vlad Mihăescu
Has Education Changed?
Past Today
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MOOCs – possible catalyst for change
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What are MOOCs?• Worldwide phenomenon -> revolution of Higher
Education?• Open access & scalability• Disruptive innovation?• cMOOC or xMOOC• Popular platforms: Coursera, edX, Udacity,
FutureLearn
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Students interaction with MOOCs
• Respondents’ background
Higher Education Diploma
71%
Age 23 - 27 years
43%
Sex Male
58%
TownTimisoara
68%
University Politehnica Timisoara
75%
Used MOOCs30%
Coursera - 66%Edx - 25%
Udacity - 18%Engineering field
64%Completed
50%
Students interaction with MOOCs
• How do students rate the following?• Easy to access – very good 61%• Free – very good 56%• Learn anytime – very good 65%• Learn anywhere – very good 58%• Course topic – very good 40%• Easy communication – average 32%• Video material – very good 51%• Course material – very good 51%• Lack of pressure – very good 42%
Students interaction with MOOCs
Higher Educatio
n
89%
Age 31 - 40 years
36%
Sex Male
63%
TownTimisoara
84%
University
Politehnica
Timisoara
77%
• Respondents’ background
Tutors interaction with MOOCs
Used MOOCs30%
Coursera - 38%Edx - 18%
Udacity - 15%Used MOOCs in class
11%Recommended MOOCs
to students35%
Tutors interaction with MOOCs
• How do tutors rate the following?• Easy to access – very good 45%• Free – very good 42%• Learn anytime – very good 56%• Learn anywhere – very good 53%• Course topic – good 37%• Easy communication – average 58%• Video material – good 40%• Course material – good 49%• Lack of pressure – average 45%
Tutors interaction with MOOCs
Conclusions
• Same numbers about the use of MOOCs.• Most appreciated aspects: learn
anytime, anywhere, easy to access, free.• Tutors are more critic than students.• What does everybody want? More
interaction with the teacher and more video material.
• Tutors point out the quality of the information.
• Interest for MOOCs: high.
Conclusions• Change is happening.
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