Your ideal future student seems to be one that is already ‘educated’. It took me about 15 years of formal education to workout what I was interested in and how to communicate with others interested in the same things. This gave me the tools I needed to be a ‘joiner’. You are asking the student to bring a lot ‘to the table’. A lot of what we do with our online courses is help the student to workout what they have to bring to the table. Where is the balance between traditional structure and being part of a rhizomatic learning community?