by LAFAYETTE JOURNAL & COURIER
Leveraging its high-powered cloud computing system, campus leaders said Friday they will start offering for-credit courses to the world. The announcement comes a week after Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology said they started a nonprofit company to offer free courses by its faculty. Stanford, Princeton and other universities also have formed a similar company that is boosted by millions in venture capital. Purdue officials hope its online attempt, called PurdueHUB-U, will not only become a force in advanced distance education, but turn into a money maker as students from other countries seek learning opportunity from Purdue’s renowned faculty.
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