Surprising Things About School
&gt;  &quot;Nearly everyone recognizes that MOOCs are by and large a failure with ~2% completion rates, but they make us feel good because now it’s the students’ fault not they’re not learning, not the school’s&quot;<p>I understand the context the author is approaching this from - but it discounts the idea that MOOCs can be used the same way we use books.<p>I&#x27;ve utilized about a dozen different MOOCs and I&#x27;ve _never_ completed a single one of them. Instead I learned the concepts I needed to, maybe completed some test material if it was freely available, and moved on.<p>Some of those MOOCs were gateways into my career as a developer - so they were absolutely vital to me. This again seems to be an issue with measurement&#x2F;metrics - I don&#x27;t believe completion rates are worth that much in MOOCs, just like they aren&#x27;t worth that much in technical books.