Just a few years ago, it seemed that MOOCs - Massive Open Online Courses - were a passing fad that no one could take seriously. (They said the same thing about online degrees). On the one hand, doubters said that free college courses online that didn’t carry any credit couldn’t possibly be worth the investment; . . .

Innovation is a funny thing; if an innovation really works, it becomes widespread, smoothed out, and conventional. A good innovation stops being an innovation once everyone adopts it. Online college degree programs were an innovation just two decades ago; today, experts can talk about “traditional online delivery” without a hint of irony, because online courses . . .

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