The MOOC Marketplace Takes Off

By Josh Bersin. The MOOC market (Massive Open Online Courses) has exploded. 
This month Coursera landed another $20M in funding, bringing their total investment to $63M (even more than edX‘s original $60M funding by MIT and Harvard).
Why all the investment?
Because this market opportunity is massive and building these online courses is expensive.  
There are more than 2 billion potential learners around the world today, and more than 70% of these are unable to afford a college degree. And today a college degree is more important than ever: McKinsey believes college-educated workers will have a three-fold advantage in salaries and opportunities by 2020. More...