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6. that's not what this is about, though. these courses *will* be offered for credit, and it looks

like the initial target is community colleges.

The five courses approved for college credit recommendation include four undergraduate credit courses:

Pre-Calculus from the University of California, Irvine
Introduction to Genetics and Evolution from Duke University
Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach from Duke University
Calculus: Single Variable from the University of Pennsylvania

And one course approved for developmental math vocational credit recommendation:

Algebra from the University of California, Irvine

Over the next months we will work to receive ACE CREDIT recommendations for additional courses.

You can earn an ACE CREDIT college credit recommendation by signing up for an eligible course in the Signature Track and then taking an online proctored Credit Exam at the end of the course. We are working with a third-party provider, ProctorU, to enable online proctoring so that students anywhere in the world can take these special proctored assessments via a webcam at their convenience. There is an additional fee for the Credit Exam.

http://blog.coursera.org/post/42486198362/five-courses-receive-college-credit-recommendations


It has always been possible to learn things on one's own by reading, sitting in at local colleges, etc. This is not about that, even though that's the opening wedge.

Make no mistake; it's more education deform, and it's targeted at public colleges and universities.

It will end with information becoming more privatized than ever. These are loss leaders, and will be removed once the goal is achieved, just like walmart raises prices after it kills off the local competition.

With the decline of hard-copy publishing & the attack on public institutions we are headed for a perfect storm of information monopoly.