Most people don’t fail online because the content is bad — they fail because of how they approach it. The 7 mistakes: (1) passive watching without pausing to recall, (2) not applying within 24 hours, (3) enrolling in multiple courses simultaneously, (4) treating the certificate as the goal rather than the skill, (5) studying in the evening when cognitive resources are lowest, (6) skipping the hard parts that are hard because they’re critical, (7) no plan for after the course. Fix all seven and your completion and retention rates will be unrecognizable.