Dive Brief:

• EdX is giving up on job-placement services after a pilot program resulted in no hires.
• In a test program, edX recruited hundreds of students and tried matching them to technology companies, but only three landed job interviews and not one was hired.
• The test program ran about a year ago and the results were not publicized, but some details were presented at a meeting last month and the Chronicle of Higher Education acquired slides from the presentation.

Dive Insight:

Even one person being hired would have been better than zero. But not one student being hired — out of a pool of high-performing candidates — could signal trouble for the MOOC movement's efforts to translate education achievements into documented real-world successes.