{"id":2636,"date":"2013-01-15T14:44:45","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T19:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2013-01-15T14:44:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T19:44:47","slug":"online-courses-dropout-rate-future-of-open-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/01\/15\/online-courses-dropout-rate-future-of-open-education","title":{"rendered":"Online courses dropout rate & future of open education"},"content":{"rendered":"

via\u00a0California to Give Web Courses a Big Trial<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The program is an attempt to overcome the biggest failure of open online courses today \u2013 their 90 percent dropout rate.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"Wagyu<\/a>Wow. 90% as a dropout rate from online courses is insane.<\/p>\n

I’ve published<\/a> open content since 2004, and have always wondered about the idea of taking it further for online education. I remember back in 2004 or so, there was a company called Digital Distribution (founded by Justin Clift) that gave you online courses using Flash. The company is no more, but what did survive from yesteryear is Lynda<\/a> videos (from the mid-90s).<\/p>\n

Now you have Udacity<\/a>, Coursera<\/a>, edX<\/a>, Stanford online courses<\/a> for certain classes and probably more – all with the focus of not just open education content, but testing, assignments, and more. Marking\/grading assignments is probably the hardest. Let’s not forget niche based stuff like Codecademy<\/a> or 10gen’s online education for MongoDB<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Signing up is easy. It’s continuing on a week-by-week basis with a busy schedule called life that I reckon discourages most people.<\/p>\n

I wonder if the trick is as easy as calendaring time to study. After all from school to university, you live & breathe by a calendar (more affectionally known as a timetable). Self-study is probably harder for the masses (as it requires self-discipline), which explains why you don’t find as many part-time students until a little later in life.<\/p>\n

How will apps & video play a role? Are apps the new channels<\/a>?<\/p>\n

I’m willing to bet though that eventually we’ll see the education becoming free, you’ll only end up paying for the certification. More self-starters, less student debt, overall a more productive world in a quicker fashion. For those of us that live in Asia, parents aspire to send kids to the UK, USA, or Australia. A lot of that is going to change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

via\u00a0California to Give Web Courses a Big Trial: The program is an attempt to overcome the biggest failure of open online courses today \u2013 their 90 percent dropout rate. Wow. 90% as a dropout rate from online courses is insane. I’ve published open content since 2004, and have always wondered about the idea of taking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[411,1493,1302],"class_list":["post-2636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-disruption","tag-open-content","tag-open-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-Gw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}