From: The Modem World Global History since 1760 Course Team <[email protected]> To:, Subject: Final Message Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 18:46:52 +0000 jeffrey epstein, The latest information from The Modem World: Global History since 1760 on Coursera. Dear fellow learners, This is a good time to take stock of the experience we have had together. Although this surely is "distance learning," your responses to the course have been enormous and vital. Some of you have pointed out errors and offered alternative interpretations. But what stands out is that this course has helped a great many people think about our common history and that this has enriched their lives. Professors learn as they develop a course; good ones learn more as they teach it and hear the ways their students respond. More than 5,000 of you participated in the mid-course survey. The responses to the open-ended questions take up hundreds of pages. Here is a link to the quantitative responses so that, if you are interested, you can see in a completely anonymous way how your fellow students responded to those questions. In addition, many of you have posted comments. Some of you have written emails directly to me. And I've encountered a number of you in person as I travel from place to place. Everywhere, whatever the constructive criticisms, the responses have been as gratifying as any teacher could ever hope to experience. In my career as a teacher, no experience has been more satisfying than this one. Thank you. Since a number of you have asked about some of the course statistics, glad to share some with you, in addition to the quantitative data in the survey. The number of students that enroll in a MOOC (in this case around 47,000) is not a very interesting number. Many of those students never even try out the course. About 26,000 people around the world sampled this course at some point, perhaps just glancing at part of a video presentation. Of these, my estimate is that som