Dive Brief:
- The Gates Foundation has given HarvardX $21,450 to study how MOOCs can be more personalized.
- The study will examine data from 17 HarvardX courses.
- The findings will be made available to MOOC developers to help professors and curriculum developers tailor courses to a variety of students.
Dive Insight:
The study will examine self-reported data from those enrolled in HarvardX classes and will also look at individuals’ learning outcomes and goals. The idea is to see how learning goals change over time and whether that can be predicted or students can be grouped in any meaningful way.