> People wrote more and stuck around longer for email than for the online course software. That says nothing about the quality of their responses, just the quantity. It says nothing about the degree to which participants in either medium were building on each other’s ideas rather than simply speaking their own truth into the void.
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> But it does make me wonder, again, if large online courses are the right medium for creating an accessible community around important ideas in our field, or in any field. [source](http://blog.mrmeyer.com/2018/big-online-courses-have-a-problem-heres-how-we-tried-to-fix-it/)