MOOC Curiosities

TheHybridClass101

   Whenever a serious conversation about learning online is started, by persons of my acquaintance, questions about testing and course credits  reflect the most frequent curiosities.  Apparently,the results from a quiz or exam, given on the internet,lacks credibility in the minds of most traditionally schooled  students.I am quick to undeceive them. The common notion that online courses would be vulnerable to cheaters or somehow easier than those attended inside a 'real classroom' is inaccurate.The opposite is true. as or cheating, most questions are derived directly from the lecture,reading materials or assignment related materials. Having access to a vessel of information as vast as the internet allows a student to google the questions,but the results are rarely appropriate.
     Coursera requires an honor agreement to be clicked upon before testing begins. If course credit is offered or a student wishes to receive an official certificate of achievement , identity verification ,by allowing facial recognition software to access a webcam or  a smartphone's camera, is often required.
Conversations of this nature usually made me  want to show,rather than tell, how compelling  way of learning can become.  This 'Educating People On Demand' blog was created to provide a link  to some of the courses I attend for the inquiring minds to examine.The purpose is to  illustrate the ease with which the two-way medium of the internet can be used for learning and allow communication between student and instructor or institution.. The varied use of correspondences, within a post, helps some visitors understand the social aspect conveyed by many of the instructors. Discussions and peer grading practices truly cement the community based feel of the 'Hybrid classroom' found within every  Massive Online College Courses, but that requires enrollment,which is free of cost,but demands more time.
 The Honor Code agreement used by Coursera is shown below.

This multiple-choice quiz is drawn from the readings, plus the video lectures on the impact of Google on the news industry. Like last week's, the quiz will be worth 5% of your grade for the course. There is also a written, peer-graded homework assignment this week.

As before, please note that some questions ask for a single answer (circular "radio" buttons), while others may ask you to check multiple correct answers from a list (square checkboxes). For a single-answer question, choose the best option from among those provided. For a multiple-answer question, you will get partial credit for each right answer selected, and partial credit for each incorrect answer that you do not select. In some quizzes, questions may require you to provide a short written answer.

If you need to check an outside source on the Web in order to provide an answer, be sure to do so in a separate window or tab; otherwise you are likely to lose your place in the quiz.

If you are not satisfied with your score, you will have the opportunity to re-take the quiz up to two additional times, subject to the penalties explained in "Course Grading and Logistics." If you retake it, your subsequent attempts are likely to contain different questions than you saw the first time around.

In accordance with the Coursera Honor Code, I (Christopher Eck) certify that the answers here are my own work. Thank you!