Professors are famous for a new reason: Teaching - Sam Finegold, Harvard Political Review

Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are going to make professors famous, not for research awards, books, Ted Talks, or columns, but for–dare I say it–teaching. Until now, professors have become famous by venturing outside their profession. While they can only lecture to a few hundred at most, other outlets and positions have offered more. http://hpronline.org/harvard/online-professors-famous-for-a-new-reason-teaching/