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Online Courses Face Tough Questions

The Internet is good for a lot of things, but, at least according to preliminary research, getting students to complete college-grade courses isn’t one of them. As The New York Times reports, “A study of a million users of massive open online courses … released this month by the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education found that, on average, only about half of those who registered for a course ever viewed a lecture, and only about 4% completed the courses.”
 

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