As a college instructor, this excites and worries me. Obviously, major courses being offered online can reduce the number of students coming through our door. Conversely, most of the core requirement courses have become so 'cookie cutter' that it feels more like departments just need a body to teach them.<p>While this can free up the course load of an instructor more to their interests, this also reduces the dept's budget (since they don't need more people to help teach Computers 101, a core requirement for every field). Personally, the Udacity/Georgia or EdX/MIT partnership are the best solutions to this: finding a way to make MOOC's work for traditional colleges.<p>Heck, restructure it close to certification tests. You pay X to have access to the study materials AND set a testing date. On that day, you test; pass or fail (with the option of a retake for an additional fee). Now, it is on the student's schedule, but the traditional school's still can turn a profit by removing course size and time limitations.