This suggests that we should be far more interested in the peers a campus supplies than the content of courses and the quality of instruction.
The best way to do it is to offer a complete content dining plan that accounts for each of the five main courses of the content marketing meal and satisfies the target audience no matter where they are in that meal.
LON-CAPA is a distributed networked system that allows the sharing of content across institutions and courses.
Because Coursera does not produce its own content or administer degree courses, "you have to work within the framework of the institutions that are actually good at that, " she said.
Content also includes Wine Spectator school courses, detailed vintage charts for all major growing regions, plus articles on cooking, entertaining, fine dining and world travel.
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These courses, and other education content, can be accessed via the iTunes U app in 155 countries.
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Pure online schools like Capella and Jones International use an unambiguous work-for-hire arrangement -- their content designers hold no stake in the courses they create.
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These universities will be responsible for the content, quality, accreditation and cost of courses offered online.
Dr. Faust called edX a startup "in every sense of the word, " adding that the site is searching for its business model, which could involve licensing course content and charging for certain offerings, such as executive business courses.
"If you're an educator at a university, college, or K-12 school, now you have an easy way to design and distribute complete courses featuring audio, video, books, and other content, " Apple's website said Thursday.
And they can teach courses in languages other than English, allowing us to provide content to students who have little or no English language skills.
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Leading universities including Duke, Yale, Cambridge, MIT and Oxford continue to extend their reach by enrolling more than 100, 000 students in single iTunes U courses, with Stanford University and The Open University each surpassing 60 million content downloads.
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It would be a portal - not devising content itself, but acting as a broker for any UK higher education institution to deliver courses and student services, provided they meet quality thresholds.
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