While the team is still examining how exactly the engagement correlates with the MOOC’s completion rate, Bowden noted that 30 percent of the 21,000 participants were still conversing through MindMixer by the course’s end – a sizable difference to the 5 percent that typically completes a MOOC.
“In my opinion, the ability for some of these MOOC students to be successful is directly related to increasing their ownership of the class’s outcome,” Bowden said. “It’s about having conversations, igniting these serendipitous things that are easy to have in a traditional classroom, but making that happens online.”
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