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This seems to leave out a large contributing factor, cost. Many, many of the MOOCs I’ve ever done were free or a nominal cost ($5-20). When you’re attending a

This seems to leave out a large contributing factor, cost. Many, many of the MOOCs I’ve ever done were free or a nominal cost ($5-20). When you’re attending a class at a university or even a local community college you’ve put in a lot of initial work to just get into the class (applying, transcripts, student portal straight out of 1977 that makes MSDOS look pretty) compounded that at minimum you’re paying $300 for a 3 credit class before any book fees. There’s tremendous more skin in the game for those classes than a MOOC so it’s not an apples to apples comparison.

cabaalis 8y ago
> student portal straight out of 1977 I remember when signing up for classes at my uni circa 2002, the easiest way was to call into the scheduling system. The man speaking to you from the automated system was a professor who had died years earlier. So I'll one-up your old student portal by saying that to sign up for classes at my university, I had to communicate with the dead. :)