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> Maybe the completion rate is similar for people who buy books. There's an even lower bar to entry: all the MOOCs I've participated in have been free.
by the_jeremy 7y ago
> Maybe the completion rate is similar for people who buy books.
There's an even lower bar to entry: all the MOOCs I've participated in have been free.
- strken 7y agoThey might be free, but all the MOOCs I've participated in have required a weekly time commitment to complete them, which is a sort of hidden cost completely separate from money. I've started the Stanford ML course on Coursera three times now, and each time some real-life thing has come up and taken me out of action for a couple of weeks.
- learnstats2 7y agoThat's just what free means, isn't it? The cost is separate from money. I don't think it's hidden that you have to study in order to learn.
- strken 7y agoStudying isn't the problem, deadlines are the problem. If you could work at your own pace then I'd guess the completion rate would be substantially higher.