I've thought about this a LOT, as a person who hated school growing up and makes a living with skills I picked up almost entirely online. I think the current s

I've thought about this a LOT, as a person who hated school growing up and makes a living with skills I picked up almost entirely online. I think the current system of traditional schools and online courses is a sort of awkward/silly transition state. Online education (as far as I've seen) is trying too hard to become some sort of 'school-but-in-the-cloud'. It would be like selling MP3s through record-stores-in-the-cloud in album form, ignoring things like YouTube and Spotify. Online education shouldn't (in my opinion) be about MOOC courses. It should be about literally figuring out what you want to do, finding people who can help you, building actual relationships with real people doing real work, and then literally getting involved and literally doing stuff. More like massively-distributed-apprenticeships. It's already happening, and I'm a proud early case study.