Online Learning Update

October 10, 2014

With Online Video, the Classroom Becomes a Laboratory

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:04 am

By Paul Riismandel, Streaming Media

With thousands of courses and hundreds of thousands of students, MOOCs have the potential to be an enormous laboratory in which to study online learning. Compared to the traditional classroom, most MOOC platforms track significantly more analytic data about how students use materials and proceed through courses. This should be important to Streaming Media readers, because most MOOCs rely on video to deliver instructional content. That makes them a prime source of data about how students consume videos, as well as how consuming those videos correlates with performance.

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