Dive Brief:
- A Wall Street Journal special report finds that MOOCs have a lot of potential, but need a lot of work on the basics.
- One of the biggest problems it finds: Some students feel isolated and disengaged, leading to poor performance or dropping out.
- The lessons learned include the ideas that interaction matters, long lectures aren't optimal and the same MOOC won't work for everyone.
Dive Insight:
These findings echo the sentiments of many MOOC critics. Still, they aren't likely to sway the model's evangelists. Anant Agarwal, the founder and president of MOOC provider EdX, shares what he sees as the biggest advantages of online learning in this video:
