Dive Summary:
- Ohio State is planning to create more MOOCs, although the few it already offered through its partnership with Coursera have average completion rates below 4%.
- The completion rate for the 47,000 students in its calculus course was about 3.8%; for the more than 30,000 students enrolled in the writing course, it was about 1.7%; of the approximately 20,000 students in the "TechniCity" course, about 2% finished.
- Some universities have used Coursera to offer for-credit courses for a fee, but OSU's courses are free, not-for-credit and open to everyone; a university academic official says he expects that to stay the same.
From the article:
... OSU mathematics professor Jim Fowler, the head instructor and project manager for OSU’s calculus MOOC program, said technology developed for the Coursera calculus classes is being used to better instruct local OSU students taking in-person calculus courses. ...
