Online Learning Update

April 7, 2014

Firm will get about $186 million to manage UF Online

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 11:09 am

By Jeff Schweers, Gainesville Sun

The University of Florida will pay Pearson Embanet an estimated $186 million over the life of its 11-year contract — a combination of direct payments and a share of tuition revenue — to help launch and manage the state’s first fully online, four-year degree program. How UF evaluates how well Pearson does its job is unknown — the standards by which the contractor is measured are still being withheld from the public, such as minimum enrollment figures and total tuition levels. UF officials maintained that those criteria are “trade secrets” exempt from state public records law.

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20140327/articles/140329618

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