Simulating personal attention in learning

Seb Schmoller commenting on the Coursera course delivered by Keith Devlin.

But what this course shares with the AI course is the feature that struck me so forcefully in 2011: the feeling that you are getting one-to-one personal tuition from a very skilled and interesting teacher. It may not quite be sitting in a bar with a really smart friend, but it is a very far cry indeed from traditional online distance learning.