Will The Internet Remove Traditional Higher Ed's Prestige Factor?

Will the Internet Remove Traditional Higher Ed's Prestige Factor?

Tara Garcia Mathewson | February 8, 2016

[...] The prestige factor that enshrines the nation’s most elite institutions comes with the selective admissions process, but when anyone can access the course content offered to the privileged few, Kinsley posits the $200,000 education may not seem so worth it.
While online, for-profit universities have not yet posed much of a threat to the Harvards and Yales of the higher education sector, there is a chance that they'll get better 10 or 20 years down the line, or that MOOCs will get better, and information once reserved for the privileged few can be had by many more, for far less.

Source: https://www.edsurge.com/news/2014-12-26-moocs-in-2014-breaking-down-the-numbers

<more at http://www.educationdive.com/news/will-the-internet-remove-traditional-higher-eds-prestige-factor/413466/; related links: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-the-web-will-disrupt-higher-educations-most-valuable-asset-prestige/2016/02/05/6bddc1ee-c91e-11e5-a7b2-5a2f824b02c9_story.html (How the Internet will disrupt higher education’s most valuable asset: Prestige. February 5, 2016) and http://www.educationdive.com/news/study-moocs-miss-mark-on-democratizing-ed-but-can-be-improved/410358/ (Study: MOOCs miss mark on democratizing ed but can be improved. December 7, 2015)>