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The founder of Udacity, one of the big players in the world of massive open online courses, told Fast Company magazine last month:

"I'd aspired to give people a profound education — to teach them something substantial. But the data was at odds with this idea."

Sebastian Thrun, the Stanford professor turned MOOC mogul, noted one piece of data that's the big fly in the MOOC ointment: Folks who start these classes usually don't finish them. The MOOC completion rate is somewhere around 10 percent.

The other data point is even worse news for Udacity. The company set up cheap for-credit online remedial math courses at San Jose (Calif.) State. Most students did finish the courses — but only about 25 percent of them passed. Ouch.

So now Thrun is publicly rethinking the free-education-for-all model, and Udacity will focus more on vocational courses that they can charge money for. Thrun's admission of — well, not failure exactly — brought out the MOOC-bashers. Some of them are rounded up in a Chronicle blog post.

Good thing I got that MOOC story in the paper, amirite?

Kidding. I like the idea of MOOCs. Free is good, and I don't have the time or money to go back to college. I like the idea of sampling courses from my own den. (I think I'm going to give this Coursera course a shot in January.)

But MOOCs as a higher education revolution? Like Thrun, I'm not seeing it. Maybe I need to take a MOOC on that.

Update, 5:05 p.m.: A reader writes: "If you want a MOOC about higher education revolution, check this out," and includes a link to a Duke professor's course on how we can redesign higher education.

That just goes to show you that there's a MOOC for just about everything. Vive la revolution!

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