Online Learning Update

December 15, 2014

Course Completion Rates Don’t Really Matter When It Comes to Open Online Learning: What does? Students’ intentions.

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:02 am

by Lauren Landry, BostonInno

Completion rates are the bane of massive open online courses. No matter how often critics are told focusing on them is “too simplistic,” naysayers harp on the average four percent rates anyway, rarely considering learners’ intentions. A new study, published in Educause, by Harvard University researcher Justin Reich suggests a new method of calculating course completion.

http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2014/12/09/mooc-course-completion-rates-harvard-study-on-online-learning/

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