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5% sounds pretty high to me, considering how low (nonexistent, really) the entry barrier is. Where does that figure come from, if I may ask?
by Schiphol 11y ago
5% sounds pretty high to me, considering how low (nonexistent, really) the entry barrier is. Where does that figure come from, if I may ask?
- Pamar 11y agoI think I took it from an article online, and it matches my own experience (when you actually finish one of these there is often, but not necessarily always, a message from the course manager with some statistics about how many people turned in the final assignment or are anyway eligible for the certificate). EDIT: Found a couple of articles: http://er.educause.edu/articles/2014/12/mooc-completion-and-retention-in-the-context-of-student-intent http://er.educause.edu/articles/2014/12/mooc-completion-and-... http://er.educause.edu/articles/2013/6/retention-and-intention-in-massive-open-online-courses-in-depth http://er.educause.edu/articles/2013/6/retention-and-intenti...
- Schiphol 11y agoThanks for this. Incidentally, the second paper you link to is co-auhored, among others, by Daphne Koller, who teaches [this great course on probabilistic graphical models](https://www.coursera.org/course/pgm https://www.coursera.org/course/pgm) and Andrew Ng, who teaches [the best-known intro MOOC in machine learning](https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning/home/welcome https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning/home/welcome).
- roymurdock 11y agoLow barriers to entry would bump the completion rate down, as people are less invested in finishing the course. That's one of the reasons that college completion rates are usually >90%.