It&#x27;s a structured learning view of the world rather than professor- or student-centric.<p>The issue is that, if you take away all structure, you also tend to take away most real-time interactions (which admittedly are a serious weakness of MOOCs anyway) and you end up with an experience that&#x27;s not much different from reading a book and&#x2F;or watching online video talks&#x2F;lectures&#x2F;documentaries&#x2F;etc. or, indeed, just doing some project. Of course, there&#x27;s nothing wrong with learning that way. But, at some point, you then go--why bother with this MOOC thing anyway if I just want to learn something?