Good practices of learning MOOCs

MOOCs - "On average 22 mins to answer the questions on wherever the students from can clearly find out common mistakes that students take (2000 much easier to determine than 2 in 200 offline classes)" [1-2]

Learning paradigm is changing: Lecture -> Mastery teaching -> Individual teaching (Lifelong needs for learning and adapt to the fast changing tech world)

Spend more time in interacting and creative improvement, learn by themselves with MOOCs

Several tips from a Facebook friend which are quite useful to me:

1. Check the introduction video
2. Do not register if you think you could not finish it
3. Learn it at the same time of the day as an offline course and get rid of any distraction during the course
4. Participate in learners' community
5. Do peer grading which actually help you to learn more by knowing the thoughts of other students
6. Tweet your registration (Is it improving success rate?? Interesting research question maybe...)
7. Restrict the quantity of MOOCs and improve the quality of your performance of MOOCs

Several take away from good MOOCs (let me continued and finished them):

1. Encouragement from the lecturer is really important in the start and end of the video lectures.
2. Make things clear and easy since there's no direct interaction of the lecture (and diversity of learners' levels).

My learnt MOOCs:

(O) Introduction to recommendation systems (Coursera)

(U) Probability : MITx: 6.041x Introduction to Probability - The Science of Uncertainty (edx)

(F) Statistics : Data to Insight (Future Learn)

(U) Social Network Analysis : Social Network Analysis (Coursera)

(F) Data Mining : Data Mining with Weka & More Data Mining with Weka

(F) Introduction to SAP HANA (OpenSAP)

(F) Introduction to SW development on SAP HANA (OpenSAP)

U: Unfinished
F: Finished

References:

[1]. http://www.ted.com/talks/daphne_koller_what_we_re_learning_from_online_education?language=en#t-1214445

[2]. http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education