KQED MindShift examines how the current trend to create large, free online classes (Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs) affects universities around the U.S. “With finances already tight and with a surge of movement toward online learning, universities are being forced to move quickly to change centuries-old models of learning. Terms like historic, seismic, and revolutionary now pop up in descriptions of the challenges that higher education faces in the coming years.”