Education is typically built from 3 parts, 1) exposure to content, 2) learning the content, and 3) verifying the content has been learned. Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have drastically scaled up the ability to accomplish the first phase of learning, but so far little has been done for the other two. The industry is now moving towards a model that incorporates face-to-face learning between students and teaching assistants along side the existing lecture infrastructure. This move should help the industry tackle the challenge of scaling the second education phase.
