I 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

I 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...