Romanian Tutors and Students

Interaction with MOOCs

Workshop “Opening Up Education”, March 13th 2015,

Timisoara, Romania

Vlad Mihăescu

Has Education Changed?

Has Education Changed?

Past Today

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

• What do students want more?

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

• What do tutors want more?

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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Thank you!Any

questions?

Vlad Mihăescu