Just the Same -- MOOC?

I was thinking, and since MOOCs have been in the air a lot, thinking about MOOCs.  And some of the underlying assumptions and such. If a MOOC course from Ivy U is appropriate to anyone who logs on, and anyone who logs on and completes should, in theory, have learned everything that the Ivy U student learns in the same Ivy U course, isn't there a sort of underlying equalization of the students as learners?  What I mean is, doesn't that basically say that students at X community college, Y regional university, and Z random community member are all basically the same, since they're all taking basically the same course and supposedly should all get the credit? Read more...