MOOC Completion...according to whom?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. MOOC Completion...according to whom?
Apostolos K., Multilitteratus Incognitus, 2020/01/22
This article addresses a simple but essential question: what constitutes 'completing a MOOC'? After all, I go to lots of websiutes, browse around a bit, and leave when I'm done. I comsider myself to have 'completed' the website. Why would a MOOC be any different? Anyhow. Apostolos K. writes that there are multiple perspectives - the student's perspective, the teacher's perspective, points in between. When MOOCs first started, certificates could have been used as an indicator, but now that you have to pay for them, they signal only willingness to pay. Once all the cruft of the traditional course began to accumulate on MOOCs, "it just didn't feel worthwhile to go above my own learning goals and jump through someone else's hoops". More...