Pop Quiz Technology and MOOCs You need some paper and a pencil

1. What is a SMOC?

What is a SMOC? The SMOC - is a Synchronous Massive Online Course, like a MOOC but it meets regularly online at specified times. ersity-offers-first-ever-synchronous-massive- online-course/

2. How many students took online courses in 2013? In millions… A. 4 B. 6 C. 8 D. 10 E. 12

How many students took online courses in 2013? About 12 million Nearly 12 million post-secondary students in the United States take some or all of their classes online right now. But this number will skyrocket to more than 22 million in the next five years take-classes-online-by-2014.aspx More than 6 million students -- nearly a third of total enrollment at degree- granting postsecondary institutions Read more: college-students-choose-online-courses/stories/ Roughly one in six students enrolled in higher education — about 3.2 million people — took at least one online course last fall, a sharp increase defying predictions that online learning growth is leveling off.

3. What are Virtual Assistants?

What are Virtual Assistants? A virtual assistant (VA) is generally self- employed and provides professional administrative, technical, educational or creative (social) assistance to clients remotely from a home office.

4. What is the drop-out rate for non- credit bearing MOOCs? About 95% About 90% About 80% About 75% Less than 70%

What is the drop-out rate for non- credit bearing MOOCs? About 90% From an early report card on MOOCs - WSJ.com we learn that often, more than 90% of people who sign up for a MOOC don't finish, though many come to online learning with a different intent than would students at a traditional university. Coursera found that students who pay $30 to $90 for the company's Signature Track identity-verification program, which confirms that they took a course and passed, are substantially more likely to finish the course.

5. What is crowdsourcing?

What is crowdsourcing? Crowdsourcing is the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and especially from an online community, rather than from traditional employees or suppliers.

6. What Does Big Data Mean?

What Does Big Data Mean? This is a vague term that has no precise meaning excepting one possible definition: You have big data when the size of the data becomes a part of the problem.

7. In 2010, what % of full-time faculty at community colleges teach distance education classes? A.Less than 35% B.About 35% C.About 45% D.About 55% E.About 65%

In 2010, what % of full-time faculty at community colleges teach distance education classes? Answer: 64% See Distance Education Survey Results CAnnualSurveyMarch2010Final.pdf Note the date is 2010 – a long time ago! CAnnualSurveyMarch2010Final.pdf

How did you do?

For lots of statistics on online courses see le/2012/07/50-striking-statistics-about- distance-learning-higher-education* le/2012/07/50-striking-statistics-about- distance-learning-higher-education* *Remember, all this data has errors