{"id":78051,"date":"2021-12-29T20:52:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T01:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=78051"},"modified":"2021-12-29T20:53:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T01:53:44","slug":"how-can-anyone-claim-that-moocs-have-been-a-failure-are-you-serious-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/12\/29\/how-can-anyone-claim-that-moocs-have-been-a-failure-are-you-serious-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"How can *anyone* claim that MOOCs have been a failure!!!? Are you *serious*!?!?! [Christian]"},"content":{"rendered":"

From DSC:<\/em>
\n<\/span>As the article below clearly relays, MOOCs did NOT fail! In the last decade, they have reached 220 million learners worldwide!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t know <\/b><\/span>the total number<\/em> of graduates from the Ivy League — throughout <\/b><\/span>all<\/em> of the relevant institutions’ histories — but I would bet you that MOOCs have reached far more learners. And MOOCs did so in less than a decade.\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And you’re going to tell me MOOCs have been a failure?!!!! Are you being serious!?!?!\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong>You can talk about completion rates all that you want to (and that misses the point, as some people sign up for MOOCs without ever intending to finish the entire course). As with other things, people get out of something what they put into that thing.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

A Decade of MOOCs: A Review of Stats and Trends for Large-Scale Online Courses in 2021<\/strong><\/a> — from edsurge.com by Dhawal Shah<\/p>\n

Excerpts:<\/p>\n

Now, a decade later, MOOCs have reached 220 million learners, excluding China where we don\u2019t have as reliable data, . In 2021, providers launched over 3,100 courses and 500 microcredentials.
\n…
\nOriginally, MOOC providers relied on universities to create courses. But that dependence is declining as more and more of the courses are\u00a0created by companies\u00a0every year. These corporate partners in course creation include tech giants Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook.<\/p>\n

…the majority of the new courses launched on Coursera in 2021 are not from universities anymore.
\n…
\nThese mass online courses were born without a business model. Yet within a decade, MOOCs went from no revenue to bringing in well over a half a billion dollars annually.
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From DSC: As the article below clearly relays, MOOCs did NOT fail! In the last decade, they have reached 220 million learners worldwide! I don’t know the total number of graduates from the Ivy League — throughout all of the relevant institutions’ histories — but I would bet you that MOOCs have reached far more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,843,842,556,318,473,174,209,115,302,200,57,823,72,286,346,287,816,36,35,178,95,3,373,458,180,119,102,7,510,228,15,423,216,505,199,62,133,309,188,118,206,38,321,214,367,852],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-africa","category-alternatives","category-amazon","category-australia","category-canada","category-career-development","category-changing-business-models","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-corporate-universities","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-credentialing","category-daniel-s-christian","category-digital-learning","category-distance-education","category-europe","category-facebook","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-generational-differences","category-global-globalization","category-higher-education","category-homeschoolinghomeschoolers","category-india","category-innovation","category-instructional-design","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-learning-preferences","category-lifelong-learning","category-love-of-learning","category-microsoft","category-mooc-massive-open-online-course","category-more-voice-more-choice-more-control","category-online-learning","category-online-media","category-platforms","category-teaching-online","category-training-corporate-universities","category-trends","category-uk","category-united-states","category-universities","category-vendors","category-vocational-trades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78051"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78057,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78051\/revisions\/78057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}