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Stephen Downes

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Fathom.com, the commercial company created by Columbia University to provide courses and other material over the Internet, will be folded in April. Why didn't it work? Though Columbia and its partners invested $25 million and created 2,000 courses, the 65,000 students it attracted weren't enough to cover the costs.

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