Khan Academy founder Salman Khan explains why binge-learning doesn't work…To learn something, you need to make a commitment and hold yourself to that commitment, says Khan Academy founder Salman Khan. You can’t binge learn something for three hours the first day and then taper off.

Chief Executive Markus Witte said Babbel quickly found that it was not how much one could learn in one sitting, but how little. "Binge learners tend not to come back," he said. "People who learn a little tend to come back more regularly."

As I was brainstorming ideas for my blog post this week, the idea of binge watching morphed into the concept of “binge learning.” In other words, would people ever want to take part in a personal online learning marathon of sorts?

While this meaning is being worked out by scholars, bloggers, tweeters and/or the army of other opinionated ranters on the web, this opinionated ranter will be going back to school and binge learning on Coursera.