[fonnesbeck]

Where does Slate find the hacks to write articles like this? Embarrassing, particularly for someone who is supposed to be an education columnist AND a professor. I had trouble following the actual story, as it was hard to separate from the writer's open disdain for MOOCs.

[mVChr]

Agreed. And Udacity's perceived failure doesn't necessarily correlate to Coursera or edX or other MOOC systems. I'm currently taking the Programming Languages course on Coursera with Dan Grossman and have found it to be on par or better than courses that I'd taken at university.