Harvard students who are not wealthy have been shafted by the enforced requirement to move out in 5 days and fly home at high expense. Not to mention the loss of jobs they depend on.

The article assumes that on-line courses are fine if only you have high-speed internet available. It pays no attention to the injustice of requiring students to run nonfree programs — which Harvard does. If I were one of the students, the only way I could see the course lectures would be if I could look on with another student.

I admire an activist friend who tried to take a Harvard edX course, but refuses to use imposed nonfree social networking software, so he automatically failed the course.