"As least in Scandinavia, we don't feel MOOCs are a huge threat to us, because there is no tuition, so there is no real financial reason for students to prefer

"As least in Scandinavia, we don't feel MOOCs are a huge threat to us, because there is no tuition, so there is no real financial reason for students to prefer MOOCs." At least the best Stanford MOOCs, Machine Learning and Databases, were taught much better, and the material and exercises were much more carefully planned, than most of what I'd expect at least in any university in Finland. Now, I hear Coursera has also some bad quality MOOCs, but as long as the very best courses by the very best lecturers can be offered to the whole world as MOOCs, their better quality should be a strong reason the prefer them over some mediocre course in a local uni.