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One of the many spinoffs the Internet has spawned is the birth of the concept of MOOC. As the expansion for it-Massive Open Online Courses-indicates, it is a means to acquiring education through the online medium, by taking up courses whose spread is expansive and accessible to anyone who has a Net connection. The major benefit of MOOC is that it doesn’t require the infrastructure and paraphernalia that traditional, classroom education has mandated for all these years. When the Net is the medium of education, there should be no need for students to flock to classrooms to take up learning in the usual manner. This does away with an entire system of education that we had been used to for a long time, at least theoretically, although the full transformation could take a lot of time. One the flip side, the online medium of education, with its emphasis on flexibility, completely dilutes the rigor and discipline and focus of education. Yet, the drawbacks and the pluses aside, it ...