edX explores demographics of most persistent MOOC students | MOOCs, SPOCs and next generation Open Access Learning | Scoop.it

As the MOOC buzz continues to reverberate across higher education, the question of which subjects and populations these massive open online courses are best-suited to remains a mystery. The data released so far by the companies that run MOOC platforms have offered little insight beyond what countries students are logging in from and some information on who took a particular computer science course.

 

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