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by dudurocha 5173 days ago
Because the Coursera courses are made to be online, not only classes that were put online.

The difference between Courser, Udacity and MITx, from iTunesU , earth academic and the others is that they prime for being a 'real' class. You have deadlines, exercises, projects and so on. And you can interact with your peers.