The New York Times recently interviewed Richard Levin, the new Coursera CEO and former Yale president. Dr. Levin predicts that Coursera will be “financially viable” within five years and that his interest is the “capacity to expand the mission of our great universities, both in the United States and abroad, to reach audiences that don’t have access to higher education otherwise.” He highlights the impact MOOCs are having on their partner institutions. “You’re now talking about extended student bodies that are numbering in the hundreds of thousands potentially, for most of our partners, whereas their campuses are in the tens of thousands. And within a few years it’s going to be in the millions, per school. That’s what got me interested. If this were just about the flipped classroom I wouldn’t have decided to take this plunge. I see a completely new set of opportunities opening up for universities — and for individuals.”