Now that it’s in Arizona State’s financial interest to accept as much MOOC credit as possible, all prior restraint will disappear. Indeed, now that the cat is out of the bag, look for more schools to become predator universities any day now.
What this means for you superprofessors is that your time to “experiment” is now over. Whether you like it or not, people will soon be giving credit for your MOOCs to the exclusion of courses taught by living, breathing faculty all around the world. I think this gives you two options:
a) Explain exactly why your video lectures and computer algorithms are pedagogically superior to actual human beings with PhDs. Or
b) Get out of the MOOC business altogether.