Why We Give Up On New Year's Resolutions, Online Courses And Diets
Thursday, January 1, 2015 - 20:00
in Biology & Nature
By David Glance, University of Western AustraliaOne of the characteristic features of Massive Open Online Courses is the observation that no matter how many students enroll in a course, only between 5 to 10% of them will ever complete it. Setting aside the argument of whether this actually means that MOOCs are considerably less “massive” than the name suggests, the interesting question is what is behind this high level of drop-outs and why does it seem so consistent? read more