March 31, 2006
Oxford, Stanford, and Yale End Venture to Provide Noncredit Online Courses
A nonprofit venture by the University of Oxford and Stanford and Yale Universities to provide online noncredit courses to the public has ended, due to financial woes.
A message posted this month on the Web site of the Alliance for Lifelong Learning Inc., or AllLearn, said it had folded because "the cost of offering top-quality enrichment courses at affordable prices was not sustainable over time."
S. Kristin Kim, who had served as president of AllLearn since November 2002,
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