Participants and completers in programming MOOCs

There are millions of MOOC participants who vary in gender, age, educational level, employment status, intentions, etc. Although MOOC participants’ characteristics have been studied, there is still a lack of knowledge of the divergence between the participants and completers of MOOCs with different levels of difficulty. The term ‘level of difficulty’ as used in this paper encompasses, besides the difficulty of covered topics, the variety of...