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		FrojoS on July 17, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 12 new universities join Coursera How so? You don't get a degree from these online courses.

Nrsolis on July 17, 2012 [–]

You don't get a degree now.

Mark my words: in a few years, you'll be able to certify that you passed each course and you'll get some form of certification for passing a sequence of courses. It might not be called "BS in CS from MIT" but it'll be looked at the same way.

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