HarvardX and MITx have released a paper that explores how audiences used MOOCs from the fall of 2012 to the summer of 2014. In that period, the growth of MOOC participants was linear –but not exponential, at a rate of about 1,300 per day.
The report concludes that the future of MOOCs is yet to be written.
[Paper: HarvardX and MITx: Two Years of Open Online Courses Fall 2012-Summer 2014]