Last month Kevin Carey, director of the education-policy program at the think tank New America, took aim at online program managers — the tech companies that help colleges build online-degree programs. In a thought-provoking article for HuffPost, Carey argued that such companies, known as OPMs, are “transforming both the economics and the practice of higher learning.”
The deals between OPMs and their partner institutions often mean that colleges end up charging their online students “the same astronomical prices they levy for the on-campus experience,” Carey wrote. In his article he focused attention on the technology company 2U, which has teamed up with many large universities to build online programs.
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