Interesting and challenging article about most current online education offerings. It would be interesting to see if the problems of maintaining engagement in

Interesting and challenging article about most current online education offerings. It would be interesting to see if the problems of maintaining engagement in a MOOC were at least partly due to students realizing that some or all of the requirements for authentic understanding were not being met. As I understand it, there is a different MOOC philosophy that has not gained much support (probably because it's much harder to scale) - the connectionist approach. Perhaps that would support some of the requirements. (PS: interesting that many of the comments here try to rise to the ice-cube challenge...)