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Arizona State U Set To Join Trend Of Offering Non-Credit Online Courses For Free

Harvard offers them. Stanford and Duke offer them, and so do more than two dozen other universities around the country.

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The Arizona Republic

St. Scholastica Aims To Reach Return Adult Students By Counting Free Online Coursework Toward Degree

Students at the College of St. Scholastica can now apply education from free online courses toward completion of their college degrees, with the potential of saving thousands of dollars.

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The Grand Forks Herald

Community Colleges Put Baby Boomers Back in School

In August, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) announced that eleven colleges had been chosen to join a national program that would train 10,000 baby boomers over the next three years for new jobs in health care, education, and social service. Called the Plus 50 Encore Completion Program, it is funded by a $3.2 million grant from the Deerbrook Charitable Trust. 2013 is year one, with a kick-off meeting scheduled in San Francisco in April. Community College Report spoke with representatives from three participating colleges about the benefits of the program to both the older generation and to the schools.

Online College Courses Boom

Another day, another development in the rapidly evolving world of massive open online courses, otherwise known as MOOCs.

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The Courier-Journal

Western Oklahoma State College Officials Deny Criticism Of 10-Day Online Courses

Western Oklahoma State College's accrediting board will evaluate so-called quick-credit courses that have made the college a target for criticism this week, college officials announced Friday.

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NewOK.com

New Frontier For Scaling Up Online Classes: Credit

In 15 years of teaching, University of Pennsylvania classicist Peter Struck has guided perhaps a few hundred students annually in his classes on Greek and Roman mythology through the works of Homer, Sophocles, Aeschylus and others – "the oldest strands of our cultural DNA."

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AP via The Huffington Post

University Consortium to Offer Small Online Courses for Credit

Starting next fall, 10 prominent universities, including Duke, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Northwestern, will form a consortium called Semester Online, offering about 30 online courses to both their students — for whom the classes will be covered by their regular tuition — and to students elsewhere who would have to apply and be accepted and pay tuition of more than $4,000 a course.

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The New York Times

A Shakeup Of Higher Education (Opinion)

As President Obama develops his second-term agenda, his administration will no doubt focus on a range of higher-education priorities, including affordability, attainment levels, and career preparation. Yet as important as these issues are, something more fundamental is happening: We’re witnessing the end of higher education as we know it.

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The Boston Globe

Managing MOOC Credits

This week, the American Council on Education (ACE) announced a research effort examining the academic potential of massive open online courses (MOOCs), in which it will evaluate select Coursera courses for college credit.

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University Business

Managing MOOC Credits

Behind the News
Kristen Domonell
University Business, January 2013

The American Council on Education (ACE) has announced a research effort examining the academic potential of massive open online courses (MOOCs), in which it will evaluate select Coursera courses for college credit. If the ACE College Credit Recommendation Service (ACE CREDIT) decides to recommend these courses for credit, it could mean an improvement in college affordability for hundreds of thousands of students. It will also raise some logistical questions for administrators at colleges and universities.

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