Athabasca University (Canada) have released the preliminary results from their latest
Learning to Learn Online course. This is a five week free "MOOC" about study skills, with an optional certificate of completion. As with other free courses, only a very small proportion of the students who enroll go on to complete (8% in 2016). However, it is easy to enroll in such a course and there is no penalty for non-completion and so this completion rate is not a useful measure. Just over half (52%) of the students who enrolled signed into the course. If only those students are considered, the completion rate doubles to 16%. A further indication of students who are actively involved is those who posted to course forums, of whom 40% completed the course, which is a typical figure for conventional small group, for-fee, distanced education courses. However, this course had five staff supporting only 265 active students (53 students per instructor), so is this really a
Massive Open On-line Course, or just an ordinary distance education course, which happens to be free?
Learning to Learn Online Course results |
|
2015 |
2016 |
Increase |
% 2016 |
Enrolled |
1825 |
1262 |
-563 |
|
Signed into the course |
916 |
655 |
-261 |
52% |
Completed/Passed |
148 |
106 |
-42 |
8% |
Downloaded a certificate |
143 |
98 |
-45 |
8% |
Discussion messages |
3099 |
1781 |
-1318 |
|
Messages by facilitators |
1284 |
192 |
-1092 |
|
Messages by students |
1815 |
1589 |
-226 |
|
Students who posted |
310 |
265 |
-45 |
21% |
Pre-course surveys* completed |
487 |
289 |
-198 |
23% |
User Experience surveys* completed |
120 |
68 |
-52 |
5% |
Female, pre-course |
67% |
65% |
-0.02 |
|
Female, completed |
70% |
68% |
-0.02 |
|
English first language, pre-course |
63% |
70% |
0.07 |
|
English first language, completed |
65% |
74% |
0.09 |
|
Holding no degree |
28% |
28% |
0 |
|
College/undergraduate degree |
31% |
31% |
0 |
|
Graduate student or above |
41% |
41% |
0 |
|
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