$7,000 Computer Science Master’s: Udacity and Georgia Tech Chop Tuition

That's big news and it's going to be a shocking bit of news to all of Higher Ed. Competitor Computer Science programs now will look expensive and be forced to respond. The price of this degree is also both heartening (to people concerned about the rising costs of tuition) and shocking (to people worried about faculty interests and the future of universities as we know them).

A MOOC Brush Off: How & Why Amherst Faculty Gave edX The Cold Shoulder

The school turned down an invite from edX, the non-profit massive open online course platform led by MIT and Harvard. It's one of the early public signs of faculty resistance groups fighting back at the trendy MOOC concept, which some believe threatens both the jobs of faculty and the idea of modern colleges and universities as we know them.

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EXCLUSIVE UPDATE: University of Rochester Dumped 2U SemesterOnline for Coursera

We have confirmation from the University of Rochester that they have, in fact, withdrawn from the SemesterOnline consortium. Here is a memo (below) from the school in February explaining the decision. As noted in our other post on Duke's withdrawal, we saw a discrepency in the number of schools participating when SemesterOnline launched and the number of schools now listed in the consortium.

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