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Initial trends in enrolment and completion of massive open online courses | Jordan | The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning

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By Jon Dron 25 February 2014 @ 3:13pm
http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1651/2774

A good analysis by Katy Jordan of a representative handful of MOOCs, albeit skewed a bit because it only looks at those that made their data available. Some interesting correlations - longer courses attract more students, but shorter ones retain them better, for instance. Mostly confirms what we already know, though: that xMOOCs are mostly taken by mature proficient learners and very few reach the end.