High-quality education provided by MOOCs can be a significant factor in opening doors to opportunity—even among the college-educated.

In many of our [online] courses, the median response time for a question on the question and answer forum was 22 minutes - which is not a level of service I have ever offered to my Stanford students.

We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them.

Current ethos in Silicon Valley is that if you build a website that people keep coming back to and is changing the lives of millions, you can eventually make money.

The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.

As a society, we can and should invest more money in education.

Universities have come to realize that online is not a fad. The question is not whether to engage in this area but how to do it.