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Money Models For MOOCs

By Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Marshall Van Alstyne
Communications of the ACM, August 2013, Vol. 56 No. 8, Pages 25-28
10.1145/2492007.2492017
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Considering new business models for massive open online courses.

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Melissa Cayer

August 08, 2013 09:21

"In the context of MOOCs, tutoring can be partially automated and students can learn from each other." From the censorship of comments that I have seen here, I doubt it.
-Melissa Cayer

Anonymous

August 20, 2013 04:27

There is a new university. University of Southeastern Florida states that they are the first university who offer credits on the MOOCs courses for a profit. I think they are peggybacking on top univeristies and defeat the purposes of free learning. Besides this universdity is not even accredited just registered in Florida as a business for profit company.

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