In 2018, MOOC providers focused on big-ticket items: corporate training and online degrees. This means in 2018 the consumer product remained relatively unchanged from a user experience and monetization perspective.
With eighteen million learners, edX is the second largest MOOC provider in the world, but it’s still struggling to find out how to monetize its courses.
Despite being an ardent supporter of MOOCs, Professor Ignacio Despujol of the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia also acknowledges that MOOCs face significant challenges.
Looking at published data about the cost, time, effort required to complete these different microcredentials, one thing is clear: there is very little standardization among microcredentials.