Stage Set for Rise of Free Online Education - NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting an active and engaged democracy.

Stage Set for Rise of Free Online Education - NPQ – Nonprofit Quarterly - Promoting an active and engaged democracy.: The stage is set for the rapid ascent of “MOOCs”—massive open online courses—the latest no-cost Web phenomenon, which may fundamentally alter the fabric of university education. In May, NPQ noted the recent founding of three such free online university ventures: edX (a joint project of M.I.T. and Harvard University), Udacity (co-founded by Stanford Professor Sebastian Thrun and David Stavens) and Coursera, with founding participants Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan and Stanford.