As president of edX, Anant Agarwal is something of an evangelist
for massive open online courses (MOOCs). He recently took the message to Comedy
Central with an appearance on The Colbert Report. Once onstage, host Stephen
Colbert told him that if he owned a shoe store and Agarwal was an employee who
wanted to give away product for free, “I would fire you and throw shoes at your
head.”
