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MOOCs are useful and productive to a small minority of "autodidacts" that could probably learn what they wanted to by searching the web and/or going to libraries and/or buying books anyway. Isn't that true for a lot of /. -ers? Aren't a lot of us self-taught?

The idea of MOOCs as a replacement aimed at the majority of learners simply isn't workable. For a more comprehensive view, see: http://neoacademic.com/2013/01/23/if-you-believe-in-moocs-you-are-assuming-too-much/