1.Economist says that generation Y is not passive and wants an active role in the work environment, but it also says that this generation is not as independent as previous ones. How are these two reconciled? Aren’t they contradictory?

2.The Trouble with online colleges – this articles quotes a study saying that students in community and technical colleges who took more online courses were less likely to graduate. The writer does not take in to account the fact that community colleges may have weaker students who didn’t get in to the upper colleges due to academic weakness. Does this have an effect on success in online courses?

3.Udacity points out that having online support, great professors, and student engagement means more students stay in the online class. These factors are also what make a student stay in a traditional classroom. It seems that what makes good teaching work is important in traditional and online classes. Is there more of a connection between these two ways of teaching than we may initially think?

4.Does providing competency testing water down education?

5.Dean Kirschner suggests that Ivy League colleges should be the pioneers and role models for change in higher education, because if they do it, others will likely follow. Is this a correct assumption? If Harvard makes it possible to earn competency-based degrees online, from Harvard, will other institutions follow suit?

6.Right now, it is possible to get a good paying job with a bachelor’s, but the more people who have bachelors, the more people will need masters and PhD’s, no? If yes, what are the social and economic ramifications of making a BA that much more accessible?

7.Right now, MOOCS are free or offer some sort of credit for a small fee, but what happens when people start charging? Will they? How can they not? Professor put in a tremendous amount of time, so at what point will they stand up and demand more pay? And if that’s the case, where is that money coming from?

8.Where is the money that is being poured into MOOC’s ($60 million from MIT and Harvard) coming from?

9. One article briefly mentioned “elite MOOC’s.” What is this and what is the point of something like that, given why MOOC’s were originally started?

10. Is it possible that MOOC’s will stratify society by creating a situation in which the elite who can afford college in the traditional classroom, pay, and those who can’t, take MOOC’s?