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The article seems to unfairly groups multiple types of online courses together. Many of community college online courses that students withdraw from or fail ar
by the_watcher 14y ago
The article seems to unfairly groups multiple types of online courses together. Many of community college online courses that students withdraw from or fail are very different than the Stanford courses one could take on Coursera. Also, the article mentions students wasting money on these courses, but doesn't mention the possibility that some of the students who failed the online courses would have enrolled and failed in offline courses and wasted substantially more money. Perhaps the reason the completion numbers are lower online is that it offers students who are unsure of their ability to commit a low cost trial run? These are all questions I'd like an article like this to investigate.