College of Future Could Be Come One, Come All - TAMAR LEWIN, New York Times

These massive open online courses, or MOOCs, harness the power of their huge enrollments to teach in new ways, applying crowd-sourcing technology to discussion forums and grading and enabling professors to use online lectures and reserve on-campus class time for interaction with students. The spread of MOOCs is likely to have wide fallout. Lower-tier colleges, already facing resistance over high tuition, may have trouble convincing students that their courses are worth the price. And some experts voice reservations about how online learning can be assessed and warn of the potential for cheating. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/20/education/colleges-turn-to-crowd-sourcing-courses.html?_show=all&pagewanted=all