Koller Interview

1. How much has the cost of education in the US increased since 1985?? 559% 2.Roughly what percentage of students graduating with a degree actually are working in jobs that require the degree they earned? Ony a little over half, 55% 3.What is the goal of Coursera? To be able to provide the best education to the people around the world, for free. 4.How many courses does Coursera offer? 43 5.Why are Coursera courses different from other online courses? 6.What does Coursera provide students who complete their classes? A certificate of completion 7.Why are Coursera courses different from a typical one-hour, one sized fits all lecture? They are able to watch more lessons at their own pace, and able to pursue topic that they may have more of an interest, or that the may need more in depth help with. 8.What is “retrieval practice”? Where students repeat what they have already learned, they use this by enabling videos ask questions to the students in the middle. 9.How do Coursera instructors grade so many assignments? Can use tech to and programs to grade assignments, and they use peer grading. 10.What is still lacking from Coursera courses? How well does peer-grading compare to teacher-grading?? 11.How do students collaborate in some of these Coursera courses? Fourm setting, and study groups. 12.How are Coursera study groups organized? Sometimes by region, language or by groups of people that just want a little extra help. Some actually met in real life to study. 13.How is the data-driven mode of education revolutionary? How can it change education? It is able to collect all the educational data of every type of student worldwide. It gives insight to effective teaching methods, and concepts that are extremely different. 14.According to Koller, what is the best method of instruction- lecture-based, mastery-based, or one-on-one tutoring? One-on-one is the best however it is not the most practical so she suggest mastery-based. 15.Why should we veer away from lecture-based education? How can we do that? Because it doesn’t truly stick. Professors need to stop talking at students through the form of lecture notes and pure content and need to talk with students and ensure comprehension. 16.According to Koller, what are the three things Open Online Courses are capable of doing? Establish education as a fundamental human right, enable life-long learning, and would enable a wave of innovation.