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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Even though there is rampant unemployment in many parts of the world, there are still large numbers of jobs that are going unfilled because employers are having a hard time identifying people with the right set of skills.