Massive Online Open Courses (Moocs) are all the rage but the top universities seem to regard them as mere amusements, unlikely to threaten traditional methods, which may be costly but are exclusive and of excellent quality.
The wise move has to be to follow MIT and Stanford, and indeed the UK’s Open University, embracing Moocs not for what they offer now but for what they might one day become. It is time for the UK’s greatest educational establishments to learn a few lessons themselves.
