{"id":1493,"date":"2013-07-20T07:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T07:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2013-07-20T07:43:21","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T07:43:21","slug":"learn-before-testing-or-test-before-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=1493","title":{"rendered":"Learn before testing or test before learning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just catching up on my reading of<em> New Scientist<\/em> and in last week&#8217;s (13th July) issue I have found this from a &#8216;one minute&#8217; interview with Anant Agarwal, president of the edX MOOC provider.<\/p>\n<p>Question: What was the first course you offered &#8211; and what insights did it give you?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: It was on circuits and electronics. In the first two weeks, about 70% of the students accessed the course video first, then did their homework. By midway through, 60% of students did their homework first, then watched the video. We learned that it&#8217;s more motivational to be given something to solve and then go get the knowledge, as needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just catching up on my reading of New Scientist and in last week&#8217;s (13th July) issue I have found this from a &#8216;one minute&#8217; interview with Anant Agarwal, president of the edX MOOC provider. Question: What was the first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/?p=1493\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[292,158],"tags":[279,436,381],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mooc","category-testing-effect","tag-edx","tag-mooc","tag-testing-effect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1495,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/1495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/SallyJordan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}