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E Chegg Study TEXTBOOK SOLUTIONS EXPERT Q&A; home / study /business / business statistics/ business statistics solutions manuals / employee training and development/7th edition Employee Training and Development | (7th Edition) Chapter 8, Problem 7AA Bookmark Show all steps: ON Problem Go to www.edx.org, the website for edX, a MOOC provider that offers interactive online courses. Watch "How It Works" video and review the demo course. How is edX using technology to facilitate leaming? What are the strengths and weaknesses of these technologies? Why do you think the completion rate for MOOC courses is very low?

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EDX is using digital MOOC technology to create a learning environment for it students. It is implementing simpler structure of learning programs which starts on a specific date and goes through about a week or two depending on the range of the specific course. Why having availability of vast amount as well as availability of different courses in its working structure is definitely a major advantage over its competitors as it has a vast availability of different courses.
This type of technology is very beneficial for reaching large number of people in very less time. It also provides effective distribution system as everything is predefined for the specific course program. Availability of Flexible operating structure and provide better support to the students for learning and to have advantage of flexible and more intuitive learning. Availability of the visuals and audios definitely increases the overall capabilities of learning for any student as well as it also increases the chances of learning because the audio visual method of learning is more effective than the traditional learning method.
Competition rate for this type of technology is very low as most of the organisations follow regular learning structures rather than going for MOOC it properly requires an online presence which is not available to most parts of the country and also require high speed data as audio visual cannot be run on Slow speed internet. Limitation directly decreases the overall level of implementation of these specific type of learning structures. EDX is using excellent learning platform which is built on its website for providing specific education to the people.