From a New York Times article on Massive Open Online Courses:
“less than 10 percent of MOOC students finish the courses they sign up for on their own.”
and
“We’ll make money when Coursera makes money,” said Peter Lange, the provost of Duke University, one of Coursera’s partners. “I don’t think it will be too long down the road. We don’t want to make the mistake the newspaper industry did, of giving our product away free online for too long.”
HT: MR.
