Pat, more than that 40 % were tech professionals, 20% graduates and 12% undergrads so over 70% from the educationally advantaged groups and very few from other groups. Openness does not in itself support inclusion - the OU has always been aware of the revolving door syndrome whereby those with low confidence etc can struggle and then give up hitting their confidence even more.
Andy
Ps @ DavidK perhaps you should write a paper for OER13 on your ds106 experiences
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On 3 Aug 2012, at 12:13, "Pat Lockley" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> There is some stuff here
>
> http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/06/05/early-demographic-data-hints-what-type-student-takes-mooc
>
> 1/3rd are already at University
>
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Lorna Campbell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> I may have heard you mention ds106 one or twice ;) I think a post about your experience of participating in the course as a student would be very interesting indeed.
>>
>> Also do you know if any work has been done on the demographics and educational background of ds106 participants?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Lorna
>>
>> On 3 Aug 2012, at 12:00, David Kernohan wrote:
>>
>> Linked but tangential... I've been involved in #ds106 for a number of
>> iterations for nearly 2 years now, and I always think I talk about it all
>> the time. But I've never written anything about my student experience on
>> the course - would people be interested if I did?
>>
>> David
>>
>> On Fri, 03 Aug 2012 11:48:06 +0100, Lorna Campbell <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Thanks for this post Andy, always interesting to hear first hand
>> experience of participation in MOOCs.
>>
>> And Pat, yes I'd be very interested to see a demographic break down of
>> the people engaging with various online courses. Does anyone know if
>> there's been any analysis of this kind undertaken?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Lorna
>>
>> On 3 Aug 2012, at 09:57, Andy Powell wrote:
>>
>> Blog post summarising my personal experiences of undertaking one of the
>> Coursera MOOCs:
>> http://efoundations.typepad.com/efoundations/2012/03/moocing-about-with-saas.html
>>
>> Andy
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>> I spotted the news story below on the Facebook page of an educator:
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