MOOC Completion...according to whom?
The other day I had an interesting (but brief exchange) with Kelvin Bentley on twitter about MOOC completion. This isn't really a topic that I come back to often, given that completion-rates for MOOCs, as a topic, seems to have kind of died down, but it is fun to come back to it. To my knowledge, no one has come up with some sort of taxonomy of the different degrees of completion of a MOOC†. But let me rewind for a second. How did we get to the topic of MOOC completion? Well, I've been attempting to make my extended CV more accessible (to me). In the past, I used a WYSIWYG HTML publishing platform to manage my extended CV‡. The idea was that I could easily export it and just push it on the web. In practice, I never did this, and when I changed computers it became a hassle to maintain. So, I moved everything over to google docs for cleanup (and easier updates). In cleaning up my CV sections (I am not done, btw!), I did make a startling se...