Google+ Hangouts: Face-to-Face Interaction, with a challengeĪ major criticism of online courses of all sizes is that students lose the “face-to-face” interaction that is prized in many traditional in-person classes.
Students can post directly to the front page on the Google+ Community for the “Irrational Behavior” course. At any given moment, you might see a new face appear on the page, excited to learn and share their experiences related to the course. Students’ posts flow down the page like a waterfall, including everything from videos, asking and responding to questions, or simple comments that say, “hello” from a student’s hometown. While 3,600 students have already joined the Google+ community for “A Beginner’s Guide to Irrational Behavior,” representing only 5-10% of active students, the level of activity in the community is astonishingly rapid and fun to watch. Communities are a recently introduced feature on the Google+ social platform, where users can choose to interact with each other, and have been used to great effect in other MOOCs such as MIT Media Lab’s “Learning Creative Learning”. One of the new and relatively unique aspects that has developed with this class is its Google+ community. Oh, and while the button appears to be quite harmless, you’ll have to join the class yourself and click the button to see what happens! Google+ Communities Posts related to this topic represent a mere fraction of the 11,677 combined posts and comments created since the pre-course launch. The enigmatic “Don’t Click Here” button: Seems legit. Mouse over to see the number of students in each country.
The following map was created to show the distribution of students who completed the pre-course survey.
The countries with the next largest number of students in the course are India (1660 respondents, 5.40%), United Kingdom (1,404 respondents, 4.56%), Canada (1,283 respondents, 4.17%), and Brazil (961 respondents, 3.12%).” Of the 30,762 people who indicated their country of residence in the pre-course survey, 10,691 (34.75%) live in the U.S. International Appealĭuke University’s Coursera offerings have appealed to a worldwide audience thus far, and “Irrational Behavior” is no exception. 48,624 students have watched videos, thereby amassing 423,548 video streaming views and 119,894 video downloads. During the first full week of class, 66,014 people have been active students. “A Beginner’s Guide To Irrational Behavior” is one of Coursera’s highest-enrolled courses, with the number of registered students currently reaching 142,061. Click Dan’s image to see the Course info page on Coursera.
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