On Feb 16, 2018 the on-line course (MOOC) LC-MS Method Validation finished successfully.
Altogether 424 (303 last year) people were registered from 71 (61 last year) countries. 236 (224 last year) participants actually started the course (i.e. tried at least one graded test at least once) and out of them 159 (168 last year) successfully completed the course. The overall completion rate was 37% (55% last year). The completion rate of participants who actually started the studies was 67% (75% last year). As can be seen, almost all these statistics are worse than they were the year ago. But then in the last year’s edition both completion rates were all time highest that our group has seen in any of our MOOCs. Thus we probably can be reasonably happy with the completion rates that we have now.
As has been the usual case with our online courses, the questions from the participants were often very interesting, often addressed things that are really important to analysts in their everyday work and in several cases led to improvements in the course. This active participation made teaching this course a great experience also for us, the teachers! The discussion threads gave a lot of added value to the course and some of them triggered making important modifications to the course materials.
We want to thank all participants for helping to make this course a success!
We plan to repeat this course again in Autumn 2018.