It's kinda funny somebody takes this numbers so seriously. My completion rate must be something about zero, but it would be nonsense to say I'm not learning. I

It's kinda funny somebody takes this numbers so seriously. My completion rate must be something about zero, but it would be nonsense to say I'm not learning. I hardly ever follow the course "in the real time", which means even if I do all my homework it almost never is full-score (most of the time even doesn't count as completed at all: for example on "archived" courses on edx) and by no means I do all my homework. In fact, right now I can remember at least 2 courses which are extremely hight in my personal "amount of practical knowledge gained from it" toplist, for which I completed exactly zero homeworks and never even watched video on the coursera, because it was easier for me to get it from torrents. For courses with programming it often is downloading assignments, but never submitting them. Why? For various reasons. Sometimes I want to try to do something in other language than suggested one. Sometimes I can think of something more interesting or practical or challenging to do, based on topic I just learned. And if it is the case it actually means I just gained much more from the material than if the best I could do would be just completing what is expected from me. Sometimes, of course, it's the opposite: the material is to easy or just silly for I would care completing assignments or even watching all the videos. And, yes, sometimes (rarely, though) the homework seems to be too hard and time consuming than I'm ready to be doing. Sometimes all I do on the course is using forums, sometimes I never even open the forums once. Sometimes all I get from the course is accidentally getting myself interested in some another topic, very slightly related to the course itself, and I'll be investigating on this topic reading various stuff for a very long time after that. In short, I never even tried to be "completing courses" on MOOC, I just tried to learn what I'm interested in maybe using the course material, maybe not, doing things on my own pace, deciding what I should spend time on by myself, and my observable online behavior hardly tells anything about how much I actually invested in learning something. So this attitude of "You see these low completion rates?! Not like in real universities at all!" is just silly. Because, yeah, right, MOOC aren't like "real" (old-fashion) universities: it's entirely different and ultimately much better thing. It's about learning, not about completing courses, even if creators of these courses don't think so. Test scores and graduating rates are notoriously bad measure even for "real life" universities, and thousand times more so for MOOC.