Sauvik Das
1 min readMay 15, 2019

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That was a (bad) joke. I have colleagues who study and design tools to encourage student comprehension of and retention in MOOCs. “Unicorn” is a colloquial term they use to describe the elusive few students who actually finish an online course. The attrition rate for these courses is very high. So, even if, as you say, “tons of people” finished the courses (as I have no doubt there are), each of them would be unicorns in their own right :)

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Sauvik Das
Sauvik Das

Written by Sauvik Das

Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University. Formerly at Georgia Tech. Ph.D. from CMU HCII. HCI, Security, Data Science.

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