Dive Summary:

• As Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) surge in popularity, the online debate over their impact has put many educators, bloggers and columnists at odds with each other.  
• Forbes contributor Alex Zhu argues that MOOCs pose no threat to higher education and points out that universities, such as the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) in Germany, have already started to accommodate them. 
• A professor at HPI believes MOOCs will fundamentally re-shape education, making the experience of learning far more accessible and customizable. 

From the article: 

In the past year, Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) has emerged to be a major trend in the education space, witnessed by the rapid takeoff of online universities such as Coursera, Udacity, and EdX. Millions of online learners from all over the world are now studying science, engineering, and humanities subjects delivered by the world’s best professors, without having to pay expensive tuition or having to quit their full-time job. The adoption was so fast that many people started to predict that MOOCs would disrupt the higher education industry from bottom up, similar to what iTunes did to the music industry a few years ago. ...