UNE shuts down its loss-making MOOCs

By Tim Dodd. The University of New England (UNE) has shut down its pioneering ­experiment with massive open online courses (MOOCs) because it could not make it pay. The university’s new vice-chancellor, Annabelle Duncan, said it was ­questionable whether the pay-for ­service model which UNE had tried would work for a small university. More...