by Lauren Landry, BostonInno
Completion rates remain a contentious issue when discussing massive open online courses. Yet, new papers released Tuesday by Harvard and MIT argue there’s more to learning online than a shrinking number of registrants would suggest. Daphne Koller, co-founder of fellow MOOC platform Coursera, acknowledged in a previous interview with the Chronicle of Higher Education that most students who register for an online course have no intention of completing it. And should we knock that? Learning is learning, and education is power. Why knock a platform delivering that power to the entire world? Seventy-two percent of edX registrants were from abroad, while nearly 21,000 of those individuals had IP or mailing addresses from countries on the United Nations’ list of Least Developed Countries.
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