AS is published in the lay press and more and more in the educational literature, MOOCS have a high enrollment and low completion rates.

The issue with MOOCs is to identify what can be best taught in a recorded lecture and what needs to be taught in person. 

Primarily informational lectures or information transfer can be provided in a MOOC. It also benefits from production "tricks" that can make the transfer more smooth. Just think about all the who-to videos on your tube.

Experiential learning, though, requires some level of mentorship. With the commodification of knowledge, we will probably move to the edges of MOOCs and apprenticeship from the current academy based learning model. 

Thank your for your thoughts - nevertheless I am especially looking for Learning Analytics issues in MOOCS.

For example you can track how often a learner use the forum, download material or watch a video - now we can visualise his/her activtiy and so on

thanks for your thoughts

There are two good reports from the universities of Edinburgh and London International Programmes about their MOOC experience on Coursera. I hope they help.  

http://www.thegoodmooc.com/2013/05/edinburgh-universitys-moocs-report.html

http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/mooc_report-2013.pdf

thanks :-)

Hi Martin,

You might take a look at our publication "Who Does What in a Massive Open Online Course?":  http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/4/173221-who-does-what-in-a-massive-open-online-course/fulltext

A version should be available through research gate.

In addition, you might look at the MITx and HarvardX course reports. We just finished a new batch that contains time spent in the course:

Latest reports: http://web.mit.edu/ir/mitx/reports.html

Original reports:  http://odl.mit.edu/mitx-working-papers/

All those reports are freely downloadable. These are more oriented for institutional reporting, but still show what is possible using edX data. You might also like MITx/HarvardX Insights:

http://odl.mit.edu/insights/

http://harvardx.harvard.edu/harvardx-insights

Thanks Daniel - indeed very helpful :-) ...

Me with a colleague investigated learner-learner interactions inside MOOCs. And now I am doing research on learners' trajectories.

But what are your research questions? It is easy to lose focus with big data.

there was no special research question, I am interested in all activities in this field ...

thx