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I don't believe I have the self discipline to complete these online courses. I start with great enthusiasm and after one or two weeks, everything's gone. The reason why this happened in coursera was because I had two weeks free time and the course was of 6 weeks. After initial two weeks, I got a little busy and neglected everything from course eventually giving up on the idea of being able to complete it.

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Udacity has some permanently-on courses, where you go at your own pace. It's wonderful for the ability to binge study, but the lack of schedule might allow you to push it off indefinitely. For my own part that's still an open question, but I loved being able to binge during the easy part.

I faced a similar problem when I first started out on Coursera. Do you think cutting the course into 2/3 parts, which can be done individually improve the course format?

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