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Stephen Downes

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Alastair Creelman reports, "The news that Coursera are now offering a concept called Coursera for campus seems to represent the closing of the circle as MOOCs become part of the traditional campus set-up." Maybe. It was always going to be difficult to sell courses directly to students. Especially when you had marketed those courses as free courses. But - as with academic publishing in general - there does seem to be a way to convince institutions to pay (and then pass the cost to students). That's what Lynda did with the government of Ontario. That's what Coursera is doing here.

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