In recent unpublished work, a data has been taken from BDEMOOC and attempted to infer how long students will persist in BDEMOOC from their performance in the first 2weeks of the course. They analyzed data from early week assignments, forum participation (including passive reading), and watching and downloading videos. They found that it is possible to derive a model from these features that predicts approximately 25% of the variance in how long students persist in the course (after the second week). This model may be usable in later variants of the course for helping to support students who are relatively more likely to stop participating in the course