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Does it really matter if 10,000 enroll with an 80% completion rate, or if 160,000 enroll with a 5% completion rate? The numerator is the important metric here,
by panarky 13y ago
Does it really matter if 10,000 enroll with an 80% completion rate, or if 160,000 enroll with a 5% completion rate?
The numerator is the important metric here, not the denominator.
- tlb 13y agoIt matters when you think about scaling up to replace colleges. Put 5 million college students / year through that funnel and you won't have an educated citizenry.
- panarky 13y agoNo, but if you put 100 million students / year through that funnel, you'll achieve meaningful learning for the same 5 million students, with access to the world's best instructors, at a fraction of the cost. And the other 95 million will get more exposure to knowledge than they had before, even if they don't take it to completion. It's hard for me to find the failure here.