Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are often described as the future of education — or at least a significant part of it. But there may be a significant problem with them: a very small proportion ...

Learning professionals continue to struggle with program completion rates. Enrollment in massive open online courses (MOOCs), for example, is high among the general population but completion rates ...

MOOCs, shorthand for massive open online courses, have been widely critiqued for their miniscule completion rates. Industry reports and instructional designers alike typically report that only between ...

If you look just at completion rates for individual online courses, they seem like a bad option. A growing body of research shows that community-college students are much more likely to fail a class ...

The average completion rate for massive open online courses is less than 7 percent, according to data compiled by an Open University doctoral student as part of her own MOOC studies. Katy Jordan, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Much of the early enthusiasm for massive open online courses, or Moocs, focused on how they could disrupt and ...

Massively Open Online Courses are becoming more mainstream, as more top-tier universities give the public access to their courses. A new study demonstrates continued wide-spread popularity with ...

At least two out of three people who enrolled in a government-funded TAFE course in Victoria between 2015 and 2017 quit before gaining a qualification. The dismal completion rate has come to light in ...