by Alex Wukman, Online Courses
As part of a strategy to address and correct, the problems with remedial education the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced in September that it would fund attempts to create new models for remedial education. The foundation recently fulfilled its promise and awarded $550,000 worth of grants to nine universities and community colleges to develop and implement massive open online courses (MOOCs) at the remedial and introductory level. The development of the classes—which include developmental math, developmental writing, psychology, and algebra—is part of the Gates Foundation’s larger strategy to overhaul U.S. higher education. To help redefine the idea of what college is, and to help raise U.S. schools’ matriculation rate, the foundation gave an additional $2.6 million in grant money to organizations to study and assess the possibilities of MOOCS.
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