BY THE NUMBERS
A data-driven look at Tech’s statewide impact.
Kicking The Tires on Tech’s First MOOC A year after Georgia Tech began offering massive open online courses through Udacity and Coursera, how are the MOOCs faring? To gain some insight, Tucker Balch, ICS 84, PhD CS 98, an associate professor in the School of Interactive Computing, crunched the numbers on the three sessions of the MOOC he teaches: Computational Investing, Part I.
113,668 74,129 30,450 Students enrolled in the course
Students watched a video
5,184
Students took a quiz
Those who completed the course represent:
Students completed the course
4.6%
of those who enrolled
7%
of those who watched a video
17%
of those who took a quiz
Of those who completed the course:
36% 17
live in the United States
94%
age of youngest who completed the course
are male
74
11%
hold a PhD
92%
age of the oldest who completed the course
visited online class forums
35
40%
posted in the forums
mean age of students who completed the course
90%
88
reported being happy with what they learned
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