MITx is still part of that 19th Century hierarchical view of knowledge that means we have to feel honoured to access Old School privilege. Learning is a social process and content is less important than context. Trad unis love content because they can say, like Rupert Murdoch, what if Yo Yo Ma taught you music or Steven Hawking physics; Now That’s What I Call Education! It confuses status and brands (which MIT once was) with learning and relevance. I’m not a big fan of the MIT OCW stuff they pushed out either which put back open education as it redefined it as content-push, rather than open learning which needs to be context and purpose driven. And they sure havent solved the accreditation problem; they are scrabbling round for a cut price business model which doesnt “dilute the brand” That’s called greed; sounds like sub-prime education to me.