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Free Online Courses to Be Evaluated for Possible College Credit | NY Times

Free Online Courses to Be Evaluated for Possible College Credit | NY Times | :: The 4th Era :: | Scoop.it

Photo of Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng, founders of Coursera, taken by Ramin Rahimian.

 

By Tamar Lewin

 

"While massive open online courses, or MOOCs, are still in their early days, the race has begun to integrate them into traditional colleges — by making them eligible for transfer credits, and by putting them to use in introductory and remedial courses.

 

"On Tuesday, the American Council on Education, the leading umbrella group for higher education, and Coursera, a Silicon Valley MOOC provider, announced a pilot project to determine whether some free online courses are similar enough to traditional college courses that they should be eligible for credit. "

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Pupils from Robin Hood primary school, Birmingham, worked with a film crew from the National College for School Leadership to express their desire to use the...

 

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