March 31, 2006

Oxford, Stanford, and Yale End Venture to Provide Noncredit Online Courses

By ANDREA L. FOSTER

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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