In 2012, John L. Hennessy, president of Stanford University, famously told The New Yorker that technology was about to dramatically change higher education. "There's a tsunami coming," he said. The quote quickly was picked up by pundits arguing that massive open online courses were about to take over higher education. Hennessy never actually made such a prediction based on MOOCs alone, but given Stanford's crucial role in the development of MOOCs, it's perhaps not surprising the quote took hold as being about MOOCs.