Some more interesting things for EDC MOOCers

We now have 42,570 participants, 12,000 of these have been active over the past week.

There are 839 threads in the discussion forums, 5467 posts, 3088 comments on posts and 82113 views of posts,

So something like this, not quite the 90–9–1 principle but not far off:

And thanks to our colleague Anne-Marie Scott, we now have an idea where all the bloggers are coming from. She’s mapped the locations of all the blogs being pulled into the EDC News feed (thanks Anne-Marie):

Sian Bayne
@sbayne

Two things that are interesting

The Coursera stats today tell us that of 41,622 enrolees on our MOOC, to date 16,963 have been active. That seems relatively high, particularly since we haven’t yet had the weekend, when it seems likely many people might begin their studies.

And now, thanks to the sterling ‘University of Edinburgh MOOCs survey‘ made by Amy Woodgate, we have a clearer idea of where our students are coming from, geographically at least. Austin Tate in the School of Informatics has made a nice visual of this:

 

Sian Bayne
@sbayne