[lucasverra]

Having ~7 moocs and 1 udacity nanodegree under the belt, here is my anecdata :

Before Coursera, i was never able to finish anything on MIT opencourseware. Free flow of information need too much commitment from my end to be digerable.

It was the structure given by

> "registering" for the class and then following a regimented schedule.

that i managed to start and finish. Disclaimer: I discovered Coursera after grad school