For Online Courses, Questions Over How Success is Measured (2014)
I think this emphasis on completion rates are a problem. I take a lot of MOOCs, but not all the content in said MOOCs are important. I just watch the parts of courses that are important or relevant to what I am doing, and call it a day.<p>For people learning from non-conventional sources, they are used to using bits and pieces from different online sources and building up their own courses and their own paths.<p>This fascination with completion rates is simply our propensity to value what we measure instead of measuring what we value.