Illinois pioneers low-cost MBA via MOOCs

By Jeffrey Young, The Chronicle of Higher Education. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign plans to start a low-cost online MBA programme in partnership with Coursera, the Silicon Valley-based MOOC – massive open online course – provider, hoping to meet its land-grant mission of improving access and also to create a new stream of revenue at a time of shrinking state support for higher education. Read more...