We are increasingly designing MOOCs for outreach, rather than just making MOOCs that individual faculty might like to provide, and also promoting them in schools through teachers, and using our students as volunteers to support the local community to access this form of education. We are exploring with Coursera how to ‘float our MOOCs free’ so that they are can be used independently of our faculty by those who wish to take a course alone, or in self-formed groups, or with a local tutor. How well this will work is not clear, but experiments of this kind will help us to think about how to reach potential learners at the time they wish to learn rather than when we wish to teach them.