4. Enrolled ‘Active’ Week 3
Assess
Week 5
Assess
Week 7
Assess
Optional
Essay
(Peer
marked)
Used
Forum
Statement of
Achievement
98,128 53,255 13,928 11,439 9,937 631 7,206 9,445
Introduction to Philosophy
Academics 7
Teaching Assistants 4
Course Duration 7 weeks
Videos 36
Average Video Length 7 mins
1 Academic lead per week
Academics active in Forums
Assessment: Weekly Quizzes
50% pass mark (across all Quizzes)
Wiki, social media, Google Hangouts Not used
http://hdl.handle.net/1842/6683
5. Student Engagement
Course
Level
Auditing Completing Disengaging Sampling
School 6% 27% 28% 39%
UG 6% 8% 12% 74%
PG 9% 5% 6% 80%
Based on 3 Computer Science Courses taught by
Stanford University on Coursera
• Auditing – engaged with content, didn’t complete assessments
• Completing – completed the majority of assessments
• Disengaging – started early assessments but dropped out
• Sampling – watch a few videos (usually just one)
http://stanford.io/1bFkqnM
Deconstructing Disengagement: Analyzing Learner Subpopulations in Massive Open Online Courses`Completing': learners who completed the majority ofthe assessments oered in the class. Though these par-ticipants varied in how well they performed on the as-sessment, they all at least attempted the assignments.This engagement pattern is most similar to a student ina traditional class.2.`Auditing': learners who did assessments infrequently ifat all and engaged instead by watching video lectures.Students in this cluster followed the course for the major-ity of its duration. No students in this cluster obtainedcourse credit.3.`Disengaging': learners who did assessments at the be-ginning of the course but then have a marked decrease inengagement (their engagement patterns look like Com-pleting at the beginning of the course but then the stu-dent either disappears from the course entirely or sparselywatches video lectures). The moments at which thelearners disengage dier, but it is generally in the rstthird of the class.4.`Sampling': learners who watched video lectures for onlyone or two assessment periods (generally learners in thiscategory watch just a single video). Though many learn-ers \sample" at the beginning of the course, there aremany others that brie y explore the material when theclass is already fully under way