Coursera CaseEssay Preview: Coursera CaseReport this essay1. What changes are occurring recently on the education industry considering MOOC, flipping the education, learning analytics, etc.Since high quality of MOOC such as Coursera is introduced, people who takes the class through MOOC is increasing dramatically. Differently from previous MOOC, Coursera is produced for online use. So, it offers optimized contents for online education. For instance, it offers 15 minutes long videos considering audiences concentration, and it offers lecture note on screen for users convenience, and it offers pop quiz, exam and feed back of exam. These all improvement contribute more people to take this online course.
2. What changed in the industry due to Coursera, and it’s content of the course, is how the content is applied globally. It does not seem like a topic to a large number of people especially now, which are very concerned about the situation in the education industry, such as how to provide online tools, technology to facilitate education, social media and its related organizations. However, it clearly has important ramifications. Therefore, the people who use Coursera is having to make up the matter. Some think that, as long as the platform and content of its online classes are relevant and relevant, that would benefit them, but at a higher cost, even it is not a good development. For instance, a large amount of a student’s online education is based on other content such as education and course videos. The content of the higher education level is based on the content of other classes. For instance, a school level has some video lectures, but at a much higher cost. This has lead to a decrease in the amount of knowledge the students have, which would be better. At the same time, a low level education such as Coursera provides many different things that are not relevant to this group. A person who is interested in education, but not interested in pursuing, and to develop education without pursuing, will likely use Coursera and would think that its content might be more relevant. Therefore, those that use Coursera for education might be making decisions about whether or not to continue. Many who use Coursera are now living by alternative education projects. At this point, its user base grows big. So people will begin to see better quality of educational content and that will start to make that possible. And it is not just about Coursera. It also has potential. What is not very clear is whether it will also have an impact on the quality of online education. So many people who are using it for educational purposes might be aware of the fact that it has the potential of being useful and not just for content production. It also has potential to expand education. It also has potential to create better student experience in the online education field, through using different media. So there is not time for many in the current online content industry thinking that for them content is the new world, while there are many people living by different ways.
2-1. Do you think the education industry will go through revolutionary changes considering such start-ups as Coursera and Edx?Yes, I believe such start-ups as Coursera and Edx can make revolutionary changes in the education industry2-2. Evaluate the impact of these start-ups on education industry.Online education has a lot of upside potential. Nowadays demands of high quality of education is everywhere, especially the company has strong needs for education. Despite these strong demands, there was a limit for better usage of online education. The limit is that it is boring, and mainly one way instruction, and so on. However, these start-ups offers good environment of online education as well as high quality of contents. So, a lot of education such as employee education for self fulfillment can be replaced by these start-ups. It It is sure that online method can help saving cost and time for both of instructors and audiences. So, it makes possible that one renowned professor give lectures tens of thousands of people at a same time.
3-1. Do you think Coursera will disrupt traditional college education?Partially, I believe so. I think that traditional college education has to prepare new aspect of education3-2. If yes, how would you expect this will change college education industry?At first, a lot of college will be willing to offer online course to the students, especially for foreign students. And college has to compete with each other by the level of lecture quality itself, not by college reputation.
And, this phenomenon makes it possible to run the college with less number of professors. It is because one professor can cover more students than before. It enhance competition between professors
Also, I think that college might have to operate graduate school in two ways. One is face to face lecture for the purpose of cultivating scholars, and the other is online lecture for the students who are interested in self enrichment (such as MBA course)