Assigning MOOCs to Students

I went on line for something and bumped into a statistic that said that 95% of people who sign up for free online learning drop out.

Many times, I enroll in online courses and I never even look at the email notification messages denoting the beginning of the week or course updates. Other times, I take the course from beginning to end.

Online learning have some problems. One problem for me with online learning is that with text exchanges you miss the nuance of tonal inflection and body language in the exchanges with others. How can we change online learning so that there is a personalization of the interaction that allows this subtle but important part of human interaction to take place?  The second problem is that the course may be above or below one’s level. 

As such, one loses interest. A third problem is the daily routine that makes one have no time to browse the material or do the required assignment.

Still, MOOCs are helpful and I learned a lot through taking MOOCs. This term I will introduce a number of MOOCs to my students. They are archived and they can do them according to their time schedule. As I  know in some schools MOOCs are becoming part of the curriculum. I will use it as a supplementary  material.