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“After rejecting for-profit companies, including 2U, Amherst decided to explore a deal with edX.”</p>
<p>It’s sort of hard to believe that it took 9 faculty members to figure out MOOCs “enrolled tens of thousands of students” or that no professor could possibly grade that many tests by hand. No one doubts the implications for liberal arts colleges or that the devil would be in the details. It’s a question of engagement versus whistling past the graveyard.
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Inside Higher Ed</p>