Phil Hill returns to his descriptive model of student patterns emerging from open-enrollment MOOCs. Based on research published earlier this year by Stanford University, Hill has updated his terminology to include the following categories of participation:
- No-Shows: learners who register but never login to the course while it is active.
- Completing: learners who completed the majority of the assessments offered in the class.
- Auditing: learners who did assessments infrequently if at all and engaged instead by watching video lectures.
- Disengaging: learners who did assessments at the beginning of the course but then have a marked decrease in engagement.
- Sampling: learners who watched video lectures for only one or two assessment periods (generally learners in this category watch just a single video).
http://mfeldstein.com/combining-mooc-student-patterns-graphic-stanford-analysis/