Obama Is Advised to Let Market Forces Decide Fate of MOOCs

Massive open online courses could help increase access to higher education while driving down its costs, but President Obama should not intervene in order to push the MOOC movement in that direction.

That’s the advice the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology has offered the president in a letter, made public on Wednesday, that focuses on education technology—and MOOCs in particular.

“Although the new technologies introduced by MOOCs are still in their infancy, and many quest...