The UDMOOC reaches a learner demographic unlike typical MOOC cohorts, with a 42% completion rate¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causal r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 2019 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person
Design limits · Eccleston 2019: no comparison group (read from the study by two models, 2026-10-26)

Subclaims¶

q2 i? UDMOOC participants comprised a high proportion of mid-aged females, nearly half without a university-level qualification, with a completion rate of 42.01%. → Eccleston 2019

Evidence¶

Eccleston 2019¶

Eccleston, C., Doherty, K., Bindoff, A., Robinson, A., Vickers, J. & McInerney, F. (2019). Building dementia knowledge globally through the Understanding Dementia Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). npj Science of Learning 4:3. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-019-0042-4

q2 · i? · causal · r1

Descriptive demographic analysis of 27,265 active UDMOOC participants and 4894 DKAS respondents. The article reports "The completion rate was 42.01% (±0.53%)", 89.9% female DKAS respondents, and Australians at 66.5% of enrolments. No effect size applies.

"Participants of both the UDMOOC and DKAS comprised a high proportion of mid-aged females with current or previous experience providing professional or family care to people with dementia, nearly half without a university-level qualification"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Completing the UDMOOC significantly increases dementia knowledge scores from pre- to post-course — related
• The UDMOOC shows an equalising effect: participants with the least dementia exposure gain the most knowledge — related
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• The probability of achieving a high DKAS target score (45–50) rises for all education and exposure groups after the UDMOOC — related