Students who registered for massive open online courses at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology through the edX platform showed steep falloffs in enrollment from their first year to the next. Persistence for new cohorts of students has gotten worse over time. Nearly 38 percent of registrants for MOOCs at MITx or Harvardx in 2012-13 were enrolled in at least one MOOC at MITx or Harvardx the following year. For those who registered for the first time in 2016-17, only 10 percent were enrolled in a MOOC at MITx or Harvardx the following year. In another sign of enrollment decline, the number of initial registrants for MOOCs in either of the two university programs fell by more than half from 2015-16 to 2016-17.
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