MOOCs need more emotional grounding to help decrease the atrocious drop rate. I see many people express concern about the drop rate of MOOCs, but I haven't see

MOOCs need more emotional grounding to help decrease the atrocious drop rate. I see many people express concern about the drop rate of MOOCs, but I haven't seen any good arguments as to why it is a problem. I've signed up for several courses, and not finished one of them! So what? I didn't cost me anything, and I didn't hurt anyone by taking up a spot in the class that would instead have gone to a more deserving student. In a couple cases, it is simply that I've got a more than full-time job, and I just don't always have the time and energy to work on a class too. If I'd been paying money for it, I probably would have taken it more seriously, but oh well. I still learned something from most of them, and it was in general worth my time to at least listen to the lectures and look at the homework assignments. I'm still working through one of them... slowly, interleaving it with all the other things occupying my free time.