Education. Democracy. These are two sides of the same coin: Society. How can be a society, democratic, if it does not offer a sound education to its fellow citizens? My central question is: Will the 'Digital Divide', in Higher Education, be filled, globally, by MOOCs? Or on the contrary, the claim "Anyone with an Internet connection can have access to Higher Education (i.e. MOOCs) is misleading, in reality? In my opinion the concept of 'access' needs to be interrogated carefully: it cannot just be assumed that because something exists and because it is 'free', it is then accessible to everybody globally. There are a variety of mitigating factors which limit access to MOOCs: the lack of the set of certain infrastructures - i.e. reliable electricity, unrestricted Internet connections - and resources - temporary or communal accommodation, rural communities, people relying on welfare or living on low incomes - can represent huge obstacles. Together with other factors, such as long working hours, multiple jobs, long distance travel from home to work. My goal is to give a potential answer to these key questions, by investigating if MOOCs can be a new form of Democracy in Higher Education, globally.