Last week, the New York Times (NY Times) reported that the world’s most popular online course is called “Learning How to Learn”, which is described as a general introduction to the art of learning, taught jointly by an educator and a neuroscientist. Offered by the University of California through Coursera, the course was ranked as the leading class by enrolment in a survey of the 50 largest online courses released earlier last month by the Online Course Report website. The course, titled “How To Learn:
Last week, the New York Times (NY Times) reported that the world’s most popular online course is called “Learning How to Learn”, which is described as a general introduction to the art of learning, taught jointly by an educator and a neuroscientist. Offered by the University of California through Coursera, the course was ranked as the leading class by enrolment in a survey of the 50 largest online courses released earlier last month by the Online Course Report website. According to the NY Times, 1,192,697 students have enrolled since the course was created last year, and completion rates have stood steadily at around 20%, an impressive level in the MOOC world where most completion rates are under 10%.