National Briefing | Education: Online Courses Attract Degree Holders, Survey Finds

About 80 percent of men and women who enrolled in a massive open on-line program, or MOOC, from the University of Pennsylvania had previously earned a bachelor’s degree, in accordance to a survey of 34,000 college students who had at least began a single of the 24 programs the university presented on the Coursera platform. Although Coursera’s founders have presented their MOOCs as a way to democratize greater schooling by producing it accessible on the web, totally free, to anyone in the planet, the Penn survey located that in the United States and developing nations alike, most Coursera students had been well educated, employed, youthful and male. Penn’s courses account for 20 % of Coursera’s enrollment.

National Briefing | Education: Online Courses Attract Degree Holders, Survey Finds