Conflating MOOC completion rates with online courses that are designed in completely different ways could prove harmful for online education, the report author wrote, though it remains unknown what kind of impact MOOC completion rates are having on those considering online education.
Class completion rates, it turns out, weren’t available for many institutions that responded to the national survey.
Sixty-five percent of respondents could not provide a completion percentage for their on-campus classes. That number was lower — 55 percent — for the collection of online completion rates.
The WICHE report authors called this a “troubling” and “unexpected” result.
“If institutions are interested in improving the overall completion rates for credentials (which is a national goal in the United States), it would help to improve the completion rates of courses.”
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