This is a fantastic development. Online education will change education, mostly for the better, more than it has in the last 1000 years.
There are a lot of free courseware videos from MIT online as well. I started seeing those about 4 years ago. You may not get a degree but you can sit in a few recorded classes to see if you find a particular subject interesting. That’s much better than paying for classes before you find out you hate the subject.