Interesting summary of xMOOCs and a post on xMOOC here on massive open online courses prove popular if not lucrative yet.
MOOCs providers such as Udacity and Coursera have to monetize to run the company and pay back to the investors.
It would be interesting to see how such model of business emerge, as monetization could be the determining factor whether MOOCs could still be free in 2013.
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