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Saturday, February 28, 2015
Enrollment in MITx MOOCs: Are We Educating Educators? - Daniel Thomas Seaton, Cody Coleman, Jon Daries, and Isaac Chuang, Educause Review
Surveys of 11 MITx courses on edX in spring 2014 found that one in four (28.0 percent) respondents identified as past or present teachers. Of the survey respondents, nearly one in 10 (8.7 percent) identified as current teachers. Although they represent only 4.5 percent of the nearly 250,000 enrollees, responding teachers generated 22.4 percent of all discussion forum comments. One in 12 of the total comments were made by current teachers, and one in 16 were from teachers with experience teaching the subject of the MITx course in which they enrolled.
http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/enrollment-mitx-moocs-are-we-educating-educators