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Vanessa 23:10 on 09/12/2013 Permalink Reply
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MOOC Data

HCI MOOC Stats / Scott Klemmer / UC San Diego / Coursera

Molly and I were wondering how many people enrolled in our PBR MOOC and other stats we haven’t heard about. I don’t think Site Dance shared numbers either. I do know that the Future of Storytelling MOOC from Postdam / Iversity has 83,000 peeps “enrolled” yet only 120 submitted “Creative Task of the Week #4” (note that unlike many MOOCs, the Storytelling one does not require these to be submitted to get a certificate)

A MOOC I’ve never taken but that sounds pretty interesting is Scott Klemmer’s Human Computer Interaction MOOC from UC San Diego / Coursera. He just finished the 4th edition of it, and as you see in the image, he does share the numbers!

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  Molly Ross 00:59 on 10/12/2013 Permalink | Reply

  That is so great to see! Obviously for his content (human computer interaction) he’s interested in how many humans are interacting. I wonder why the other courses or platforms don’t just automatically include this information? Is there a reason for it?

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    Vanessa 01:11 on 10/12/2013 Permalink | Reply

    My guess is that it’s simply who bothers to share the numbers. Scott Klemmer shared his Coursera stats, but Steve Koplowitz didn’t (that I know of) share his Coursera stats. Our PBR team hasn’t shared our NovoED stats (that I know of) but Christina Maria Schollerer has shared the numbers I posted above for her Iversity “Future of Storytelling” MOOC.

    Overall though, I’m with you. Why don’t the platforms themselves just share data all over the place, just as you see “72 Facebook likes” on a blog post. Or as the forums DO show the Post / Comment / Read counts.

    Open Data. Open Web. Open Knowledge. It’s all about Open!