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Three's Company
Stanford University, birthplace of two MOOC companies, decides to work with a nonprofit started by MIT and Harvard.
Call in the Lawyers
Edwin Mellen Press, under fire for a now-dropped lawsuit against a university and librarian, threatens more legal action after a website wrote about the case.
Online Rx for 'Cost Disease'
William Bowen, former Princeton president, argues in new book that technology can lower college costs, but there remain more questions than answers.
United Opposition
Academic senates of California's three higher ed systems all now oppose plan to deal with overcrowding by outsourcing instruction and forcing colleges to award credit for programs that may be unaccredited and for-profit.
Economies of Online Scale
Florida and New York try to expand their online course catalogs while consolidating authority.
Coursera's Contractual Elitism
Many state universities and small liberal arts colleges that want to partner with Coursera may not want to wait by the phone.
Social Media as Medication
Student affairs professionals discuss how technology use -- in some ways, enabled by the officials themselves -- may harm students' social development.
Who Owns a MOOC?
At U. of California Santa Cruz, faculty leaders charge that Coursera's deals with instructors endanger hard won intellectual property rights.