Dive Summary:
- Writing for the Associated Press, Justin Pope enrolls in a MOOC to see the experience from the student perspective and finds that the self-discipline required to finish the online course doesn't come easy.
- He concludes that it would have been better to be in the room with the lecturer, but says there are advantages and disadvantages to each arrangement.
- Pope finds the schedule and rigid pacing of the MOOC frustrating and says one advantage of an online course should be to have the option of working at a student's own pace.
From the article:
... The question isn't whether a MOOC with a great MIT professor is as good as what MIT students get on campus. It's not, but that's not the choice most people face. The question is how the MOOC experience compares to the alternatives they do have. ...
