Indeed, Jensen said the university has to talk students into staying to finish their degree.
“Once you give them a job offer where they can make more money than their professor,” he said, “it’s kind of hard to come up with a compelling argument to get them to stay.”
Open source advocates in higher education lauded MOOC platform edX’s announcement last spring that programmers worldwide would have no-charge access to the web-based learning platform, as Stanford agreed to integrate parts of its Class2Go platform into edX.
The open source code includes edX’s learning management system (LMS), its course authoring tool known as Studio, and xBlock, an application programming interface for incorporating third-party learning objects.
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