I'd wager that you're in the small minority here. I've gone through a number of MOOC courses and structure, schedule, TA interaction and shared experience seem

I'd wager that you're in the small minority here. I've gone through a number of MOOC courses and structure, schedule, TA interaction and shared experience seem pretty important to most enthusiastic / best performing course takers. Some courses, like CS50 are already completely self-paced. Others run quite frequently, restart every month. Being able to have it all in terms of TA/instructor support and an arbitrary schedule seems to be the direction Udacity is going with subscriptions. I do agree that being to easily grab some/all course materials at once would a nice option. However, I've completed a majority of the work for my courses offline and only one had its coursework structure in a way that necessitated a frequent connection to complete.