MOOCs and the Funnel of Participation

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. MOOCs and the Funnel of Participation
Doug Clow, The Open University Open Research Online, April 16, 2013
Interesting paper introducing the metaphor of a 'funnel of participation' to illustrate the steep drop-off inactivity in a MOOC. It uses three MOOCs as cases and observes that the number of people registering is much greater than the number of people making "meaningful learning Progress." Good set of references (though it suggests to me I ought to publish more). More...