Can you imagine wanting to check your answers to the work you just did and having to watch a commercial to do that. Probably reach a point where they'll require camera access to track your eyes to make sure you're paying attention.
Alternative to a problematic suboptimal (according to you) school experience is not a perfect school experience but no-school experience.
American public schooling system has become a jobs program for adults.
I don’t mean to be a blowhard.
But if you’re going to argue that it does, that you’d send your kids to CourseraU, you are conflating the aesthetic experience of learning with actual learning.
Much like many video games, quite successful ones actually, reenact the aesthetics of work but are in no way shape or form actual work. This may be important for why they are an appealing product but don’t go and argue (as hardly anyone does) that League of Legends is work. That’s why it would also sound absurd to say Coursera is learning.
The University of Phoenix people are total shitbags. Charging for some shit certificate is a complete shitbag move. Just because it’s online doesn’t make it special.
In that sense, yes, expect that ads will happen. I think you’re onto something.
I don't think I understand the comparison to video games. Yes, sometimes games will simulate work, but that's not at all like online education simulating education.
It has its issues, but motivated students can and do learn online.