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A comment on For Online Courses, Questions Over How Success is Measured (2014).

Re:For Online Courses, Questions Over How Success is Measure... by qyirius on Sunday September 15, 2019 @12:31AM (#20975573)
Maybe because the definition of completion for some of the courses includes a lot of things that aren’t valuable to the learner. I consider being able to skip lectures one of the benefits of online courses
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Re:For Online Courses, Questions Over How Success is Measure... by jdnenej on Sunday September 15, 2019 @12:54AM (#20975639)
Also because some of them don't let you really see what the content is unless you sign up. I have signed up for free online courses before just to check what they contain.
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