Can MOOCs Cure the Tuition Epidemic?

New MOOC-based master’s degrees from Georgia Tech, MIT, and Illinois are significantly cheaper than on-campus degrees

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Sebastian Thrun, MOOC pioneer
Computer scientist Sebastian Thrun, co-creator of a wildly popular MOOC at Stanford in 2011, sits in front of a green screen. Because of the extensive digital content involved, it can cost several hundred thousand dollars to produce a new MOOC.
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