Online Learning Project Shuttered

The AllLearn project, a consortium among Oxford, Stanford and Yale Universities to research online learning, has come to a close. We offered 110 online courses from Oxford, Stanford, and Yale Universities to over 10,000 participants from 70 countries during the past five years. As we looked to the future, the cost of offering top-quality enrichment courses at affordable prices was not sustainable over time.

AllLearn – Alliance for Lifelong Learning

Well, this is a bit sobering. One does wonder what the cause of the failure was.  Perhaps this market does not really exist. It is important to note that the consortium was offering enrichment courses, not credit courses or training per se.

 

L&C Launches Open Access Legal Scholarship Site

BoleyBlogs! » Open Access Legal Scholarship at Lewis & Clark- Paul L. Boley Law Library – This follows along after last year’s Open Access Law program.  One would hope that this may catch on, But I’m not sure the critical mass is there.  Law faculty are not so concerned about open acces to their scholarship, it seems to me.  Perhpas if there was an actual authoring platform that encouraged open Access to the materials being created, this would pick up steam.

 

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