Within the past year, many top-notch universities, including Harvard, M.I.T. and Stanford, have been offering MOOCs through start-up providers such as Udacity, edX and Coursera. 

Millions of students have taken advantage of the courses.

And now, dozens of public universities are planning to offer the free courses for college credit, according to reports by the New York Times and Forbes. Anyone with access to the internet would be able to sign up.

The program is called MOOC2Degree. Universities such as Arizona State, the University of Cincinnati and the University of Arkansas plan to participate. The idea is that the MOOCs would serve as a recruitment tool, assuming that students who do well in the online courses would eventually enroll in the universities themselves.

See the full list of universities here. The University of Hawaii doesn’t offer MOOCs yet, but it does have a range of online programs.

Do you think MOOCs — or even the MOOC2Degree program — would be feasible in Hawaii?

— Alia Wong