<p>Providers</a> of Free MOOC's Now Charge Employers for Access to Student Data - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education</p>
<p>Providers of free online courses are officially in the headhunting business, bringing in revenue by selling to employers information about high-performing students who might be a good fit for open jobs. [...] Some high-profile tech companies have already signed upincluding Facebook and Twitter, according to a post on Coursera's blog, though officials would not disclose how much employers pay for the service. </p>
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<p>If students can get good jobs without going to college, many will not, especially if they have to a pay a lot for it.</p>
<p>At the stage that MOOC’s are now I don’t think it’s possible for someone to fully kluge together an entire college degree through this model. What you have is people who have one degree and are taking MOOC’s in another area, possibly changing fields. You have mom’s who have been out of the work force for a number of years raising children and are updating skills and adding to their resume. People within the field taking MOOC’s to deepen their knowledge base and be more competitive. These type of people may be helped by the headhunting services. Perhaps someone with an associates degree might get further specialization through MOOC’s and skip the bachelors but that’s a stretch and dependent on their natural talent and the employers attitude. I don’t see a student out of high school taking on a series of MOOC’s and becoming employable at a level of a college graduate.</p>