Here's the outcome of that first MIT online physics class:
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EdX officials say 154,000 students from more than 160 countries registered for MIT's first online course, "Circuits and Electronics," this past spring. Only about 7,100 students passed the course, but that's still a lot more than can fit in a lecture hall.
More than 120 universities have expressed interest in joining the consortium, said edX President Anant Agarwal, who heads MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/08/05/us/ap-us-elite-colleges-online.html?_r=2&smid=fb-share