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by michaelt 4913 days ago

  Top universities are not going anywhere, nor is their 
  prestige. If that were the case, why would MIT/Harvard
  /Stanford/Yale publish their courses in this manner? They 
  wouldn't.
Do you think, if university administrators thought online courses could bring quality education to billions of people worldwide while making their costly offline courses obsolete, they would move to block academics from experimenting with online courses? That's a rather cynical view, don't you think?