Coursera Macquarie University Excel

[Urbano Bozman]

Aroundsix months ago, online course provider Coursera established a platform-wide discussion community. I wrote about it in February for Class Central, and mentioned it briefly in my March 19th post for Online Learning Success. In January, while researching the community for these posts, I joined up and posted in some of the topic threads.

Since then,I have regularly clicked over to the Coursera learner community (select COMMUNITYthen Learners at the bottom of the Coursera homepage) to check the discussionsand see what other threads I can join. More are appearing all the time. Inmid-February, there were over 600 threads. A month later, there were 700 andnow the number of threads is nearing 1000.

The first category listed is theCoursera Common Room which includes many threads on general interest topics:Events, News and Announcements; Networking and Social Discussion; Study Tips;Community Help and Questions; and Course Suggestions.

The third major category is theGlobal Translator Community with just one sticky post that encourages peoplewith translation skills to join the Coursera Global Translator Community. Withinterest in MOOCs continuing to expand worldwide, translation plays a vital partin online education. If you are fluent in English and another language, clickthe link and sign in with your Coursera account to select from a list of morethan 50 languages.

Anyone can view the CourseraCommunity, but you need to sign in to follow threads or post your ownobservations. So far, nearly 5000 people have joined. You have to already beregistered with Coursera to sign into the Community. Create a differentusername for the Coursera community discussion if you prefer. You can alsodelete your Coursera Community account without affecting your Coursera account.However, if you delete your Coursera account, your Coursera Community accountis also deleted.

Add as much or as little to yourprofile as you wish. Include an image, your interests, job title, city and/oryour country if desired. In your Settings tab, you can auto-follow threads whenyou post, choose whether or not to display your community title and badges, andother options.

What is your community title?Community titles include Newcomer, Participant, and Community Manager. EnthusiasticCommunity Managers monitor the discussions and keep them organized. Occasionalthreads had a note from a Community Manager explaining that they moved the postto its own thread for clarity.

You can tag other users with @.For instance, if you want to thank someone for a particularly helpful answer toyour question, use @ with their username. You can also tag someone whenanswering their question or making a comment that you think will beparticularly interesting to them.

As I browsed threads, a list ofRelated Threads appeared on the right of my laptop screen. This list changedwith every thread I viewed and occasionally I became frustrated because aninteresting title would appear, but if I selected a different link, it woulddisappear. Eventually, I started right-clicking and opening threads in a newtab. This then led to at least 10 tabs open! I wanted to respond to so manyinteresting topics. I expect to continue participating in the communitydiscussions.

Some threadshave been started by the Community Managers who do a sterling job of keepingtrack of threads while letting others have their say. If a question is asked,Laura or Claire might weigh in after a few days if no one else has alreadyanswered. In this way, most threads are answered in a timely manner withouteverything being dominated by the managers.

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