Policymakers should look warmly upon MOOCs, says AEI’s Andrew Kelly. MOOCs are great for self-starters and less so for remedial students, but they still have a role to play in increasing access to education and lowering costs.

Who owns online courseware? The professor who created it? Or the school that gave the professor the resources and platforms to do so? Once colleges figure out how to monetize their MOOCs, these questions will be anything but academic.