Learning happens best when students receive individual feedback from expert teachers.
It has already long been the case that different learning environments offer this feedback appropriately or inappropriately, well or poorly or not at all.
The grave concern now, evident across the academic world, is that "cost-cutting" measures" (or: shifting resources away from instruction and toward administrative bloat) will once again make this feedback available only to the elite, leaving everyone else to struggle under circumstances that do not provide appropriate learning experiences.
The problems with online learning and MOOCs are well known: they are typically suited for highly motivated learners who already have excellent skills in assessing information and monitoring their own learning, but poorly suited for everyone else.
