MOOC Adoption By Universities

Reeve Hamilton reports on the slow adoption of MOOCs by universities, despite efforts by groups like the Texas legislature to fund initial course offerings. My concern is that student course completion rate for a typical MOOC varies from 1% to 15% according to the linked New York Times article.

If the goal is simply to make content available, MOOCs (and TED.COM) do this; to ensure people are listening to the presentations, some measurement of learning attainment needs to be integral to the program evaluation.

-DD