An article in today's NYT claimed that a very prestigious Uni., Georgia Institute of Technology, will offer a MOOC-based online master's degree in computer science for $6,600 - far less than the $45,000 on-campus price. This is the 1st prestigious Uni. to offer degrees by online courses. (Previous records from non-prestigious Uni were miserable; sometimes with zero enrollment in paid credit-award programs.) This is an uncharted wild-west territory and many predict that Georgia Tech will fail since it will cannibalize the campus enrollment and will devalue its credentials. Let's see if it is an epoch-making endeavor or just a flash in the pan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/education/masters-degree-is-new-frontier-of-study-online.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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