Online courses and our future

Online courses (e.g. in software development) often allow for a student to digest it passively "by simply watching the lectures and getting the certificate", but the student could get more out of it by:

• building projects and maintaining them
• seeking alternative angles and opinions
• internalizing (rather than memorizing) the content
• strengthening meaning (e.g. through analogies) out of topics when "they sound boring"

Of course, a course doesn't need to "make students go through all that" ... as it is up to the student to make a course that much more meaningful!