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Completion rates (as a percent of sign-ups, anyway) are rather irrelevant. People sign up for free classes, poke around, move on. But you could easily see a wor
by inanutshellus 10y ago
Completion rates (as a percent of sign-ups, anyway) are rather irrelevant. People sign up for free classes, poke around, move on. But you could easily see a world where--regardless of drop-out rate--more people completed an MIT-taught Coursera class than actually took the "real" MIT class.
- Kalium 10y agoI can easily see such a world is possible, yes. That said, completion rates do matter. If completion rates remain so sharply low, it will suggest that perhaps MOOCs are not quite the perfect replacement for instructional institutions they are often cast as. After all, success rate is the difference between telling a randomly selected American kid "Anyone can become President!" and them actually doing so.
- rokhayakebe 10y agoYou can compare completion rate for a free course and a paid course based solely on how many students enrolled and how many completed the class. You will have to set some point in the course at which you begin to compare, say for example you will start to compare all students who have completed the first half or third of the class.