2u’s Semester Online consortium will soon disband
This summer 2U’s for-credit online course platform Semester Online will offer two dozen new courses on subjects ranging from forensics to Shakespeare. They will also be the program’s last.
After years of high-profile partnership announcements, stumbles, and false starts, 2U will discontinue its online learning consortium before the new school year begins.
The program allows universities to pool together resources to offer for-credit online courses. While the courses’ video lecture format is often compared to massive open online courses, Semester Online courses are quite different from MOOCs. The courses aren’t open to just anybody, and they’re hardly massive, with many courses being capped at 20 students.…Read More