Move over, MOOCs

MASSIVE open online courses, or MOOCs, offered by universities have the potential to shake up education. People yearn to learn, but many enroll on MOOC courses only to flunk out after a few lessons. MOOCs are ill-suited to their medium: they are long and lack interaction. That is why less formal alternatives are doing well.

Source Link: http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2013/10/short-e-courses
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