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Most people who take massive open online courses already hold a degree from a traditional institution, according to a new paper from the University of Pennsylvania.
The paper is based on a survey of 34,779 students worldwide who took 24 courses offered by Penn professors on the Coursera platform. The findings—among the first from outside researchers, rather than MOOC providers—reinforce the truism that most people who take MOOCs are already well educated. 
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Presenter: Toni Pearce, NUS Vice President (Further Education) Session: Keynote #abs125 Toni presented an insightful and thought provoking keynote based on the results of a wide ranging survey of s...
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We are, as we are continually told, in a new era of higher education management. The student is at the heart of the system, and all the decisions are based on a need to improve the student experience above all else. Because funding directly follows the student, plans are necessarily short term and thus unstable. But what could have more impact on the quality of the experience than the staff that institutions employ who deal directly with students. Every aspect of the much-fetishised student survey returns to this need – calls for “better feedback” are calls for more time with academics, calls for “better resources” are calls for the employment of staff to enable and support access to resources. But staff – good staff, motivated staff, secure staff – represent a long term institutional investment.
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Survey results confirms impression that many participants of MOOCs have : that most already hold a first degree, so MOOCs not at this moment in time closing the inequality to access education....