MOOC of the day

Check out this $3,675.00 MOOC offered by a company called Barbri, complete with recorded video lectures and everything. Law graduates sign up en masse for it to study for the legal bar exam. Barbri claims to have the highest pass rate of all bar preparation services.

Someone should study its attrition rates and related quality metrics. Or I guess keep pretending that people who sign up for free Coursera courses are comparable to students actually enrolled at a university. It’s a toss up as to which makes more sense, methodologically speaking.