The main problem is that great courses require great faculty to create and manage them semester by semester. Udacity and the like are built on the premise that we can scale up a professor&#x27;s reach by orders of magnitude. But you can&#x27;t do that without losing quality. The state of online course software is such that in most cases it&#x27;s a hindrance, rather than a help. Software should make our jobs easier, but for professors building an online course versus building a traditional lecture&#x2F;paper&#x2F;chalkboard sort of course, technology far too often gets in the way and makes their jobs harder.