Does participation in MOOCs improve employment outcomes? This is exactly the sort of thing that should be studied, rather than meaningless indicators like grades. Anyhow, the authors find "we find that participation in MOOCs can improve workers' employment retaining." I think that's about what would be expected. As usual in education research, the sample size is too small and unrepresentative to be able to generalize; "the estimates of the effect of MOOCs may be driven by particular groups of individuals in our sample, in which case we would be erroneously generalizing the benefits of MOOCs." Still, this sort of work points in the right direction. Meanwhile, if employees want better wages, their best bet is still a union.
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