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Ricky is a soccer mom with her associates degree in nursing. She has been a registered nurse for 10 years and now has a child daughter who is taking biology. She wants to help, but knows she won’t remember the course she took in college. At the time, she’s searching for something to refresh her memory and test her problem solving skills and wants to know if an online course would suit her needs better than a textbook.
Joey is a full time college student who uses MOOCs to learn more about topics she’s he’s interested in. She He signed up on Coursera for a class called “Algorithms, Part I” - taught by a professor at Princeton. She He didn’t really have any information about the course before she he signed up other than the syllabus on Coursera, but thought it might be interesting. She He admitted that Princeton was a big part of the reason she he joined that course over others, but says she he would have changed her mind if she he knew the professor wasn’t a great teacher beforehand. Kayla Joey said that she he felt overwhelmed because she he didn’t know where to look for a review of the prerequisites.
Professor Danny has just released an online course at some massively open online course. He’d like to know what his students struggle with and how they find the course. He tried asking his students to fill in surveys throughout the course, but feels many most students didn’t respond truthfully. He wants to know how he did as an online professor, and how he can improve his course and course content in the future.
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