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Saturday, May 10, 2014

Dead MOOcs at Rutgers

From Inside Higher Ed:

Graduate faculty members at Rutgers University at New Brunswick have once again rejected administrators' plans to create more online degree programs through a partnership with Pearson. Last October, faculty members in the Graduate School blocked any new programs from being approved, objecting to Pearson's share of tuition revenue -- 50 percent -- and an "obscenity clause" in the contract that Pearson later clarified.  On Wednesday, administrators introduced a new resolution that, instead of blocking programs, tasked the executive vice president with producing a report on the partnership with Pearson...

Instead of voting on the proposal, faculty members passed their own resolution, 26-2 with two abstentions, to not even consider the administration's suggestion...

Full article at: http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/05/09/rutgers-graduate-faculty-rejects-online-degree-compromise

Death is hard to beat:

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