I agree, I just finished my masters online at Johns Hopkins University in bioinformatics. Holy shit was it a slog, I about had a break down halfway through. The best way I study, with a small group of people focused on a similar topic, was largely unavailable to me.<p>However, online classes or MOOCs are intended to be a solution to a problem. I don&#x27;t think they will ever be better than an in-person education, if you can spend 4-10 years after high school not worrying about time or money and just focusing on your education. For a great number of people that is not a possibility. When looking at a partially social issue like education, we need to pay more attention to how it plays out for the lowest 10% not the highest 10%.