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Free Online Courses Don’t Hurt Paid Enrollment

By admin | February 4, 2010

Free Online Courses Don’t Hurt Paid Enrollment

When customers visit Amazon.com, the Web site lets them sample parts of books for free. Some open-education advocates think this try-it-before-you-buy-it idea offers an answer to one of the biggest questions facing the movement to publish course materials free online: What business model can support giving away your content?

New research takes a close look at what happened when one institution, Brigham

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