Online schools/courses will have to adapt to the Open University(OU) model. Here I am describing the Indian OU because I am aware of the workings of one of them

Online schools/courses will have to adapt to the Open University(OU) model. Here I am describing the Indian OU because I am aware of the workings of one of them(Maharashtra Open University). India has many OUs, all funded by governments(central and state level). This is because not everyone in India can afford expensive education, most poor people work and study at the same time so OUs help them with managing both, and the population is huge as well(which are the same goals of MOOCs such as edX and Coursera). So how do they manage this? Well, the Indian OUs have local chapters, they hire locals to conduct "explanation sessions" for students, conduct exams etc (it is a public-private partnership model). A place and time is fixed on when and where students will get support. Almost all study is self-study. But if a student wants to talk to someone then they have the option to go to the local chapter for help. This is managed at a massive scale, and I am just talking about a local state-level OU. Here is their link: https://www.ycmou.ac.in https://www.ycmou.ac.in Another well-known Indian OU is run by the central government. This is even bigger in scale with TV channels etc, as they have to cater to the whole country. Their link is here: http://www.ignou.ac.in http://www.ignou.ac.in One thing to note here is that the OUs cater to the demands of the grassroots. They have a massive feedback system(mostly offline) to adapt to the changing demands quickly. MOOC will have to do something similar in the long-run. But then again, they won't be any different than OUs, except at the global scale. Edit: typos and some additional information.