As a person who took several MOOCs and completed none of them, I can honestly say that you're right on the money. I think the only real problem that the other

As a person who took several MOOCs and completed none of them, I can honestly say that you're right on the money. I think the only real problem that the other comments allude to is the social aspect of college life. People think this because College is the de-facto solution socialization with similarly aged peers. I believe that many organizations will pop up with the death of the university to solve these problems. Think about it, all you want is a place to talk to others, and get info on jobs or other opportunities. In previous ages, a lot of this was not done at university but at coffee shops or similar institutions. Just because you don't have college doesn't mean that you can't make connections. Heck, I believe if the college fad dies down, with the amazing social networks that we have now, it will be super easy to create meet up groups, and hey, it could even open up the potential for specifically themed coffee shops. For example, there is a coffee shop in my area that caters specifically to programmers, there's a podium if anyone wants to present a talk, there are private tables further away from the podium, there's free internet, the tables can be flipped, to give you glass surface that you can write on with a marker ( the list goes on ). I feel that MOOCs will push towards students searching for mentors, who they really respect and hence can more effectively learn more. Furthermore, it will lower average student debt as well as make many aspects of selective college life publicly available. This will not however happen over night, but I see MOOCs as the harbingers of radical change in education that has been stagnated by the entrenchment of the ivory tower into the very heart of what education means today.