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The MOOC pivot, Science, 11 January 2019
67 million registrations.13 percent completed their course in 2017 to 2018, down from about 4 percent in each of the two previous years and nearly 6 percent in 2014 to 2015. Of those who registered, 52 percent never entered the courseware; the vast majority of learners never returned after their first year, growth in participation had concentrated in the world's most affluent countries, and low completion rates had not improved over six years.
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- G706-01Cohorts, completion and the honest numberState the measured completion rate of the largest open courses and its trend, and say what a cohort changes about the design that produced itabout 31 min · opens on The MOOC pivot, Science, 11 January 2019
- G706-02Promises you can keepState the two misrepresentations the Bureau found against BloomTech, the figures behind each, and the sanctionsabout 31 min · opens on CFPB v. BloomTech and Austen Allred, 17 April 2024
- G706-03When the institution fails the studentState what happened to ITT Technical Institute in September 2016, how many students and campuses were affected, and what the Department did about the loans years laterabout 32 min · opens on The closure of ITT Technical Institute, September 2016
- G706-04Marking under pressure: assessment integrityState what the 2011 Georgia investigation found in the Atlanta Public Schools, how many educators and schools were implicated, and what the investigators named as the causeabout 33 min · opens on The Atlanta Public Schools cheating investigation, July 2011