1. MOOCs Need More Work; So Do CS Graduates.
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Guzdial, Mark and Adams, Joel C.
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MASSIVE open online courses , *COMPUTER science education , *EMPLOYMENT of college graduates , *STEM education - Abstract
The article provides an assessment of the first full year of massive open online courses (MOOCs) in the U.S. in 2013 and gives an employment outlook for computer science (CS) graduates. The Gates Foundation has provided funding to Georgia Tech University to develop a MOOC approach for a first-year college physics course. The San Jose State University in California released a report stating that the measures of student effort beat all other variables tested for their relationships to student success, such as demographic descriptions of the students, course subject matter and student use of support services. Computing careers are predicted to make up 73% of the jobs in STEM careers in the current decade.
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- 2014
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