eLearningworld News from USA
MIT and Harvard has researched the performance of their Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) from 2012 to 2014. Data from totally 68 courses, 1.7 million participants, 10 million participant-hours, and 1.1 billion logged events are the source of the report. Some of the key findings were that in general at the start of the course approximately 57% was aiming to get a certificate, while 24% reached the goal. The respondents in the initial survey that did not aim for certificate 8% still earned one. Moreover, certification rates are high among those who pay $25-$250 to “ID-verify” their certificates. Source: Report HarvardX and MITx: Two Years of Open Online Courses – Fall 2012-Summer 2014