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I like this idea that the MOOC may be something like the electronic version of the "trade book," in that it usefully exposes academic ideas to people outside academia. Combined with the idea in the Boyer reports that "public intellectual" work could be considered as "service" instead of research or teaching, and I think there's an interesting new way to consider MOOCs...

A report published Monday by Moody's Investors Service says that the spread of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, is "credit positive" for universities that offer them but "credit negative" for the majority of lesser-known institutions that lack a prominent brand name.