A University’s Offer of Credit for a MOOC Gets No Takers

10 July, 2013

MOOCs and credit and profitBy Steve Kolowich, July 8, 2013

It was big news last fall when Colorado State University-Global Campus became the first college in the United States to grant credit to students who passed a MOOC, or massive open online course.

For students, it meant a chance to get college credit on the cheap: $89, the cost of the required proctored exam, compared with the $1,050 that Colorado State charges for a comparable three-credit course.

That is a big discount.

Yet almost a year after Global Campus made the announcement, officials are still waiting for their first credit bargain-hunters.

Not one student has taken the university up on its offer.

Read the article in full, and then 24 comments which, as usual for CHE, are very informative and often indispensible part of the articles:

http://chronicle.com/article/A-Universitys-Offer-of-Credit/140131/
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