Stephen Downes

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What Constitutes Student Success?

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Online Teaching Conference, California Community Colleges, Long Beach, California, Keynote, Jun 21, 2013.

In this presentation I address the evaluation of student success in a MOOC environment, challenging the idea that success can be measured by such things as completion rates and test scores, and offering an alternative network-based mechanism of assessing success.



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