This is definitely true to a degree. It doesn't work well for all things though. For instance, I am particularly interested in Electrical Engineering (I want

This is definitely true to a degree. It doesn't work well for all things though. For instance, I am particularly interested in Electrical Engineering (I want to build modular synthesizers) right now. I have no foundation in it and I found some MIT lectures on youtube. They were awesome but sadly the lecture series was incomplete. I know I could just read a book but they tend to be very dense. Having the lectures was super helpful. I see these MOOCs as a way to open these lectures to the world. They just need to not try and fit it into the old style. Truly voracious and driven students should be able to progress at their own pace while having high quality presentations. Scheduled curriculum feels like a huge barrier to me. I'm not inclined to pay for a scheduled curriculum where I would pay for a all-at-once lecture series.