If you can get hired without a college degree, then the people who will go to college will be those who want an education, not just a job. That should reduce the demand for college education, which should in turn lower the price (supply and demand, and all that). It should also open up a lot of jobs to a lot of people.<p>But I want more than that. I want the ability to cobble together a real, recognized degree out of courses like this. I want to be able to get a degree in materials science this way, or in pre-law, or in English literature, or in physics. (Western Governors University does something like this, but like Google here, they don't cover enough topics/majors.)