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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.

The most disruptive change is the shift from the ability to continue to control from the top-down.

Some specific issues for MOOCs in HE and FE are handled in separate sections:  Education theory: are MOOCs an innovation or a continuation of prior ODL  Futurelearn - the UK MOOC platform: what will it offer  FE - can the sector profit from the maturing of MOOC formats  Completion and drop-out rates and metrics for MOOC quality  Technology evolution: how will learner analytics develop to enhance MOOCs