“…Althoughparticipantswereidentifiedthroughconveniencesampling,theycorrespondwellwiththe demographicsofMOOCusersinIndia:thetypicalMOOCuserinIndiaismale,inhisearlytwenties, andpossessingabachelor'sdegree (Trehanetal.,2017;Trehan&Joshi,2018).Aswiththisstudy's sample,30%ofIndianMOOCregistrantsarefemale (Mullaney&Reich,2015).Furthermore,just over30%oftheintervieweeswereenrolledinfull-timeeducationattraditionalinstitutes,asimilar percentage to a previous study (Dillahunt et al, 2014). Whilst the interviewees were typical of MOOCusersinIndiaintermsofage,sex,andeducation,theyarenotrepresentativeoftheIndian populationingeneral-thisholdstrueforMOOCusersinallcountries (Christensenetal.,2013;van deOudeweetering&Agirdag,2018) Finally,oneareainwhichthisstudy'sMOOCusersarenottypicalistheircompletionrateof 30%comparedto5%onEdXand4%onCoursera (Pretz,2014).Whilethispaperoffersarichpicture ofMOOCuseamongstthissampleofIndianusers,itsfindingcannotbegeneralizedtousersbased outsidethemajormetroswherefewerEnglishspeakersresideandgreaterbandwidthproblemsexist, norcanitbegeneralizedtostudentsfromnon-scienceandtechnologybackgrounds.…”