Data Mining Exposes Problems for MOOCs

Data Mining Exposes Embarrassing Problems for Massive Open Online Courses | MIT Technology Review: "And they have depressing news. They say that participation falls precipitously and continuously throughout a course and that almost half of registered students never post more than twice to the forums. What’s more, the participation of a teacher doesn’t improve matters. Indeed, they say there is some evidence that a teacher’s participation in an online discussion actually increases the rate of decline."

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