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  • Coursera finds a path to profits

    Free Massive Online Education Provider, Coursera, Begins To Find A Path To Profits Rip Empson Gregory Ferenstein, techcrunch.com Online edu­ca­tion providers may very well dis­rupt the higher-education estab­lish­ment, but first, these for-profit com­pa­nies need to find a way to finance the mam­moth tech­ni­cal infra­struc­ture need­ed to sup­port mil­lions of stu­dents. I… http://flip.it/MO0mD Related articles With…

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  • Coursera helps to mitigate the pain of calculus with elearning

    Free Coursera Calculus course with hand-drawn animated materials Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net Robert Ghrist from Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia wrote in to tell us about his new, free Cours­era course in single-variable Cal­cu­lus, which starts on Jan 7. Cal­cu­lus is one of those amaz­ing, chewy, chal­leng­ing branch­es of math, and… RT @BoingBoing: Free Coursera Calculus course with…

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  • 2U now offers online MOOC courses from top schools for credit

    2U One-Ups MOOCs, Coursera, Now Offers Online Undergrad Courses From Top Schools For Credit Rip Empson, techcrunch.com Four years after it launch­ing its first grad­u­ate pro­gram with USC, 2U today has announced its foray into under­grad­u­ate edu­ca­tion through a new pro­gram called Semes­ter Online. The com­pa­ny will be pow­er­ing a vir­tu­al class­room… Related articles Exploring…

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  • Coursera: Consortium of Colleges Takes Online Education to New Level

        Consortium of Colleges Takes Online Education to New Level – NYTimes.com. Related articles Consortium of Colleges Takes Online Education to New Level – NYTimes.com (policyabcs.wordpress.com) The Way of the Future: Coursera (jaypgreene.com) Are online courses more susceptible to cheating problems? (blogs.ajc.com) Progress Making Higher Education More Affordable (healthymemory.wordpress.com) Why Are Students Cheating on…

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