UF Online Reboots

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The collapse of the partnership between Pearson and the University of Florida is the latest example of a mismatch between expectations and results, online education experts say.

The university said as recently as last month that it wished to renegotiate the terms of its agreement with Pearson, a mammoth 11-year deal that could have netted the company as much as $186 million to bring UF’s degree programs online (though Pearson officials dispute the size of that sum). This week, less than two years after the deal was signed, the university announced it would cancel the contract.

Come December, the university will “integrate UF Online more fully into core university operations,” according to an email that Evangeline J. Tsibris Cummings, assistant provost and director of UF Online, sent to university deans last week.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/10/23/less-two-years-after-launch-u-florida-reboots-online-education-initiative