@proceedings { title = {Attrition in MOOC: Lessons learned from drop-out students}, author = {Gütl, Christian and Rizzardini, Rocael Hernández and Chang, Vanessa and Morales, Miguel}, editor = {Uden, Lorna and Sinclair, Jane and Tao, Yu-Hui and Liberona, Dario}, abstract = {Despite the popularity of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), recent studies have found that completion rates are low with some reported to be significantly lower than 10%. The low retention and completion rates are major concerns for educators and institutions. This paper investigates motivations for enrolling in a MOOC on the topic of 'e-learning' and discusses reasons for the attrition rates during the course. A survey of 134 students who had not completed the MOOC reveals that only 22% of the students had intended to complete the MOOC but was unable to due to various factors including academic and personal reasons. A big majority of the students indicated that changes in their job, insufficient time, difficulty with the subject matter and unchallenging activities are some of the reasons for the drop-out.}, year = {2014}, month = {09/2014}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, volume = {446}, pages = {37-48}, address = {Santiago}, country = {Chile}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10671-7_4}, url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-10671-7_4}, isbn = {978-3-319-10671-7}, keywords = {attrition rate, completion rate, massive open online course, retention rate}, }