UC Online Courses Attract Only FIVE non-UC Students

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<p>UC Online Courses Fails To Attract More Than A Few Students</p>

<p>The University of California spent millions creating UC Online and launched the first classes a year ago, offering UC quality courses to current students and anyone else outside the university system. According to the Associated Press, about 1,700 UC students have signed up for one of the 14 courses offered, but they've attracted a grand total of five non-UC students, despite $4.3 million spent on marketing. </p>

<p>UC Online was supposed to generate revenue for the cash-strapped but highly reputable state university system. The program borrowed $6.9 million from UC with a plan to repay it by enrolling 7,000 non-UC students who would pay $1,400 to $2,400 per class. With just five students so far, that means they're somewhere near $10,000 in revenue or 0.0014 percent of what they must repay within seven years.</p>

<p>Meanwhile, the free online courses have attracted hundreds of thousands of users. Coursera, a MOOC startup created by two Stanford University professors, has drawn 1.7 million users. </p>

<p>UC</a> Online Courses Fails To Attract More Than A Few Students</p>

<p>Must have been than ill-advised and now shelved logo that did it!
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<p>Its hard to compete with Coursera which has courses for free.</p>

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<p>Why would I pay large sums of money for information I can find instantly with any search engine?</p>