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Thursday, November 15, 2001
http://www.yaleherald.com/features/front.html Online alliance reaches crossroad - Universities weigh budgets, accessibility in online education quest. BY KUSHAL DAVE The announcement last September seemed innocuous enough: Oxford, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale were each pitching in $3 million to offer a few online courses for alumni, with vague promises of a broader scope in the future. All four universities already boasted some form of distance or alumni education; at Yale, the Association of Yale Alumni had been offering online courses for two years. This Alliance for Lifelong Learning would share knowledge—and risk. But, a year later, with 394 students across the globe packing into the first 10 classes, the honeymoon is coming to an end. Yesterday's surprising news that Princeton would be leaving the alliance, coupled with continued ambiguity about who should be able to take the Alliance's courses, at what price, and for how much credit, hint at the battles to come....
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