Five Ways Free Online Classes Will Change College, or Not | LinkedIn - 0 views
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Coursera, is barely a year old and already has 2.5 million students, 215 courses, and 33 college and university partners.
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If applicants take a MOOC or two from one of the colleges they are considering, it allows the institution to better assess the readiness of potential students.
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MOOCs can reduce those numbers if some students could take MOOCs to brush up on what they don’t know well enough before they get to college, for free and with little risk.
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