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Millions of dollars are poured in this project. As the article states, tuition could creep to normal levels once the initial money runs out. Still, it's an interesting experiment.

What the article doesn't mention is this, lifted from another recent article in Chronicles: But that plan, too, could encounter institutional challenges. Benjamin Flowers, chair of the university's graduate curriculum committee, says he and his colleagues have "at no point been given, to review, any written proposal for any new graduate degree program." Officials seem to have circumvented the committee by casting the Udacity partnership as a "modification" of an existing computer-science master's program, says Mr. Flowers. He says his committee is not done with the Udacity proposal, and may raise the issue in the university's faculty senate when the body reconvenes this fall.

I like the fact that they limited their predictions to 2013--a reasonable window. Anything beyond that gets pretty fuzzy. Re. online education: given that the PC still reigns as the 'de facto' device, it makes one wonder if much effort needs to be put in development for smaller devices. Perh. it's enough to develop apps that act as 'flags', and incite users to use their PC for more details. (That's the way I use the technology, by the way.)

Seems like a good collection, but not well tagged which makes it hard to sample.

Psst--UNB is putting a MOOC together, with online video lectures and activities.

Slate magazine. The title may sound negative, but the article is a positive endorsement of flipping the classroom.