“Alternatively MOOCs, with their high demands for connectivity, online literacy and English language skills, may be excluding developing world students and privileging learners from the most highly developed educational environments.”
"Seventy-five percent said the main reason they signed up for a MOOC was that it didn't cost them anything, while 29 percent of those who dropped out said they got too busy to continue, and 20 percent said they lost interest."
we’re a Research I land-grant university, and our mission at its core is to extend education to populations that wouldn’t normally have such access, so it really fits in with our model with how we were conceived as an institution to offer something free or low cost to students either in Colorado or beyond.