Dive Brief:

• "Flipped" classrooms that incorporate outsourced lectures could help community college students and make the schools more efficient, Bill Gates says.
• Gates acknowledged that many faculty members would feel threatened by having their lectures outsourced to professors at elite institutions.
• One of the billionaire's arguments for  MOOC lectures: As they are refined, their quality will be hard to match by the average classroom professor.

Dive Insight:

Gates, famously a college dropout, was speaking to a gathering of community-college leaders, whom he urged to test the waters by signing up for a MOOC. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Gates said he himself has done so many times: "For a dropout, I've taken a lot of courses."