First, I said this would be the experience of the average person. People that typically go to Ivy League schools are way above the average. Yes, many of the ve

First, I said this would be the experience of the average person. People that typically go to Ivy League schools are way above the average. Yes, many of the very best, well known professors teach at good schools. But I think you'd be mistaken if you didn't think that many of these professors wouldn't jump on the idea of communicating their ideas to many thousands of people at once instead of a select few (especially if they were paid royalties for every student who took the class). No one was saying it would be the same experience. You wouldn't be singing with the Tiger Tones in Nassau Hall or playing frisbee on the quad, but for many people that wasn't ever the choice. The choice for people that go online isn't going to be between a school like Princeton and the University of Phoenix. It's going to be a much smaller gap of prestige. If schooling (like mine) had cost 12k instead of 160k, there would be many who see the opportunity in carrying no debt and using that money for another purpose. There will be tradeoffs, but an extra 100k would surely have paid for one hell of a semester abroad.