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.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.This fascination with completion rates is simply our propensity to value what we measure instead of measuring what we value.