By Kayla Webley, Time
Last week, the American Council on Education (ACE), a Washington-based higher education organization that represents college presidents, announced that it would be using a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to begin evaluating a handful of courses from Coursera, a MOOC provider that launched in April, to see if they are worthy of college credit. ACE, which has some 1,800 member schools, will apply the same evaluation method it has used for years to assess other non-traditional training programs including those offered by the military or in the corporate world. EdX, which was co-founded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University in May, is expected to make a similar agreement with ACE soon, and on Nov. 18, announced partnerships with two community colleges that will blend edX classes into their existing curriculum.
http://nation.time.com/2012/11/19/mooc-brigade-can-online-courses-keep-students-from-cheating/
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