Having ~7 moocs and 1 udacity nanodegree under the belt, here is my anecdata : Before Coursera, i was never able to finish anything on MIT opencourseware. Free

Having ~7 moocs and 1 udacity nanodegree under the belt, here is my anecdata : Before Coursera, i was never able to finish anything on MIT opencourseware. Free flow of information need too much commitment from my end to be digerable. It was the structure given by > "registering" for the class and then following a regimented schedule. that i managed to start and finish. Disclaimer: I discovered Coursera after grad school