by CLAUDIO SANCHEZ, NPR
From New Mexico to New York, 10 state university systems have announced they are joining the ranks of elite institutions embracing the massive open online course, or MOOC, system. On Thursday, they unveiled a landmark partnership with Coursera, a for-profit tech company with 3.5 million registered students. It’s the biggest effort to catapult degree-granting institutions into the world of global education. The state universities of Tennessee, Georgia, Colorado, Kentucky, Nebraska, New Mexico, West Virginia and New York and the Houston University System are taking the plunge to offer online courses to students across the globe for free. Most of them already offer a catalog of courses online, which Coursera will format into modules for a fee of $3,000 to $5,000 each. That breaks down to between $30 and $60 per student, a fraction of what it costs to develop and deliver a traditional course.
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