A 3-minute Duolingo lesson. A 7-minute compliance training video. A 90-second surgical technique tutorial watched between patients. Microlearning — instruction delivered in focused bursts of…
The enrollment-to-completion gap in online learning is a canyon. Coursera courses average a 3-6% completion rate. Udemy is likely worse, though the company doesn’t publish…
Nobody flunks out of online courses because the material is too hard. They flunk out because Tuesday night becomes “I’ll catch up this weekend,” which…
Online course completion rates average 5-15%. That’s not a statistic about course quality — many of these courses are from Harvard, MIT, and Google. It’s…
