Help Identify Risks in eLearning (or, learn from my fail) - 1 views

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  #1 m_rturnage on 20 Jul 13

   

  The average completion rate of most free online courses is 7.5%. That means over 90% of participants sign up for a free online course and then drop out. (A nice visualization can be found here: http://www.katyjordan.com/MOOCproject.html).
  
  A list of top ten reasons people drop out can be found here:
  
  http://www.openculture.com/2013/04/10_reasons_you_didnt_complete_a_mooc.html
  
  Finally, in February, there was a laughably bad online course on how to teach and deliver online courses.
  
  http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/02/05/mooc_meltdown_coursera_course_on_fundamentals_of_online_education_ends_in.html
  
  For example, in this course, the instructor told the 40,000 participants to log into a Google Doc and add their name to the list, not realizing that Google Docs support only up to 50 users at a time.
  
  This should help when identifying risks and constraints.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The average completion rate of most free online courses is 7.5%. That means over 90% of participants sign up for a free online course and then drop out. (A nice visualization can be found here: <a href="http://www.katyjordan.com/MOOCproject.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.katyjordan.com/MOOCproject.html</a>). <br /> <br /> A list of top ten reasons people drop out can be found here: <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.openculture.com/2013/04/10_reasons_you_didnt_complete_a_mooc.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.openculture.com/2013/04/10_reasons_you_didnt_complete_a_mooc.html</a> <br /> <br /> Finally, in February, there was a laughably bad online course on how to teach and deliver online courses. <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/02/05/mooc_meltdown_coursera_course_on_fundamentals_of_online_education_ends_in.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/02/05/mooc_meltdown_coursera_course_on_fundamentals_of_online_education_ends_in.html</a> <br /> <br /> For example, in this course, the instructor told the 40,000 participants to log into a Google Doc and add their name to the list, not realizing that Google Docs support only up to 50 users at a time. <br /> <br /> This should help when identifying risks and constraints.</div>

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