{"id":1264,"date":"2010-02-11T19:06:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T00:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2010-02-11T19:06:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T00:06:44","slug":"university-finds-free-online-learning-classes-dont-hurt-enrollment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/02\/11\/university-finds-free-online-learning-classes-dont-hurt-enrollment\/","title":{"rendered":"University finds free online learning classes don&#8217;t hurt enrollment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/open-source\/news\/2010\/02\/university-finds-free-online-classes-dont-sap-enrollment.ars\">University finds free online learning classes don&#8217;t hurt enrollment &#8211; Jacqui Cheng, ars technica<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; resource and quote below from Ray Schroeder<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Free online courses aren&#8217;t sapping enrollment numbers\u2014in fact, they&#8217;re actually helping to spread the word. Those are the preliminary findings out of Brigham Young University, which experimented recently by granting free access to a selection of its distance learning courses. Though further study is needed in order to see whether there&#8217;s a significant impact, educators are beginning to see that offering free materials isn&#8217;t the end of the world after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University finds free online learning classes don&#8217;t hurt enrollment &#8211; Jacqui Cheng, ars technica &#8212; resource and quote below from Ray Schroeder Free online courses aren&#8217;t sapping enrollment numbers\u2014in fact, they&#8217;re actually helping to spread the word. Those are the preliminary findings out of Brigham Young University, which experimented recently by granting free access to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,35,62,133,76],"tags":[585,77,601,572],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-changing-business-models","category-game-changing-environment","category-online-learning","category-online-media","category-open-courseware-and-systems","tag-game-changing-environment","tag-ocw","tag-online-learning","tag-walmart-of-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1265,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/1265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}