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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

More university students are failing their courses, and Māori and Pacific students are worst affected. Ministry of Education figures showed universities’ course completion rates dropped from a high of ...

When addressing institutional barriers to student success, achieving buy-in and helping practitioners feel supported in initiatives is critical in changing campus culture. At Indiana University, ...

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 ...

As an instructional designer who has been building MOOCs for the past five years, I’ve been asked this question more times than I can count. It’s depressing shorthand for skepticism about online ...