{"id":1785,"date":"2017-10-05T21:32:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T21:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2017-10-05T22:00:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T22:00:03","slug":"stcecilias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2017\/10\/05\/stcecilias\/","title":{"rendered":"last night I dreamt I went to St Cecilia’s again"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Actually, I didn’t dream it. I was there to present to Academic Senate. Senate<\/a> means ‘old men’, in case you didn’t know. It’s from the Latin.<\/p>\n

Our Senate at Edinburgh University is actually fairly mixed, and the room was packed for a discussion about ‘The Future of Distance Learning’, and that is my bag<\/a>.<\/p>\n

St Cecilia’s Hall was looking lovely. Much better than the first time I visited<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I have to say though, the AV technology brought in for the event, while lovely, and useful, kinda spoiled the point of the venue. St Cecilia’s<\/a> is famous for its age and its accoustics. It is set out with amphitheatre<\/a> steps to sit on around the sides like those Latin-speaking senators might have done in ancient times.\u00a0 I think we should have spoken from the performance area without ppt slides* and been our own projectors.<\/p>\n

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St Cecilia’s Hall, University of Edinburgh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In case you are wondering , University of Edinburgh currently has about 2,920\u00a0 distance learning students studying via online programmes at Masters level. We have 65 programmes \u2013 (with about 100 permutations).<\/p>\n

In terms of cohort size, 7 out of top 10 are CMVM programmes. Surgical Sciences peaked in 2014\/15 (155) and has returned to its previous steady state level (105).\u00a0 Yes, we do teach surgery online. Most other programmes teach fewer than 35 students per year.<\/p>\n

For the demographic fans amongst you we have 62% women studying online masters compared with 57% of all masters students. Our online students are also\u00a0 older\u00a0 than our on-campus ones.\u00a0 88% are over 25. We have students from 134 countries studying online. 60% reside outside the UK; but that is not very different from the domicile of our on campus students. The top 6 countries are all English speaking ( Scotland, England USA, Australia, Canada, Ireland)\u00a0 and account for 59% of students<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A significant difference in the student mix is that there are few Chinese online students, whereas they account for 21% of campus based PGT students. Our MOOC learners come from all over the world\u2026 but despite there being 2million of them, only 80 apply for online masters.<\/p>\n

Only 1.4 % of our online learners are\u00a0 our alumni.<\/p>\n

Alumnus is also Latin, it means ‘foster-son or pupil’. Alumna is for women.<\/p>\n

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*I had lovely slides designed by Yujia in a colour scheme to match the venue as you can see.<\/p>\n

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