Agreed, in my experience (primarily with Coursera and edX, which are admittedly different from Udemy&#x2F;Udacity in their focus), the recent wave of online courses or &quot;MOOCs&quot; mostly boils down to video lectures being made readily available online. For my purposes, this is just great! The content is often very high quality, and I have yet to pay for a course since so much is available for free.