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What makes these courses look bad is the fact that many people will just sign up just take a peek at the content, rather than genuinely want to see it all the w
by UK-AL 14y ago
What makes these courses look bad is the fact that many people will just sign up just take a peek at the content, rather than genuinely want to see it all the way through.
I guess this adds to the attrition rate.
- 38leinad 14y agowhy does that make the course look bad?
- mattstreet 14y agoIt makes it look bad to people who judge it based on the attrition rate.
- Ralith 14y agoAll manner of wonderful things look bad to such people.
- michaelt 14y agoThere's a bunch of reasons people might drop out of a university course. Some of these reflect badly on the university/means of course delivery. For example, if they're dropping the course because it's poorly taught, or they can't understand the lecturer. There's no indication this was a problem with the MITx course though.
- ruv 14y agoI'm glad to see that they are considering longer periods than a semester: I started the course and enjoyed the ability to view the lectures at a high speed and the exercises were to the point (Even if rather easy but it was expected for an introduction course). But I couldn't finish it due to real life university load. I would like to see more flexible deadlines such as 2/3 weeks since the last assignment for ex. but I understand it wouldn't be manageable when taking midterms and finals into account or provide significantly more work having to make a few of those or delay if they were at constant dates...