According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, major
universities are have second thoughts about having commercial MOOC providers
handle their online courses.
Colleges looking to expand their
online course offerings have often enlisted help from education-technology
companies. A college might buy a learning-management system from Blackboard,
e-tutoring software from Pearson, and so on. Coursera, the Silicon Valley-based
company that specializes in massive open online courses, recently became the
latest technology firm to offer services aimed at credit-bearing online
programs at large universities. Now the provosts in a consortium of major
research universities are considering whether their group should build its own
online infrastructure that would enable the universities to share courses,
digital resources, and data without ceding control to outsiders...
Full story at
http://chronicle.com/article/Universities-in-Consortium/139919/
Suddenly, the “free” services offered
by the commercial providers apparently don’t look so good and the universities
are willing to let them take back their offers:
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