The Global Freshman Academy is a collaborative Open Online Course ( MOOC ) agreement between Arizona ##tech University ( ASU ) and edX which was launched earlier this year with the hope that offering degree credits for MOOC completion might attract more students to degree programs . However , reports today suggest that less than 1 % of the 34,086 students that have enrolled on the partnership program so far are actually eligible to earn credits for the degree . For each of the three MOOCs on offer , only around 1,100 students complete the seven - week course , and of those , only 323 in total are utilising the option of paying ASU an additional fee to receive credit toward their degree .
The Global Freshman Academy is a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) agreement between Arizona State University (ASU) and edX which was launched earlier this year with the hope that offering degree credits for MOOC completion might attract more students to degree programmes. However, reports today suggest that less than 1% of the 34,086 students that have enrolled on the partnership programme so far are actually eligible to earn credit for the degree. For each of the three MOOCs on offer, only around 1,100 students complete the seven-week course, and of those, only 323 in total are utilising the option of paying ASU an additional fee to receive credit toward their degree.