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>'The council has not yet advertised its services directly to MOOC students'.

Thank you for pointing this out.

While I'm all about Hanlon's Razor some of this just feels so shady.

In the case of the CSU offering there no direct advertisement, but a slew of articles pointing out that no one signed up.

Looking a bit further I found that my own local University system where I'm registered as a CS major started offering roughly the same deal last fall [1].

There was no announcement and even now I can't find a single thing about the specifics on either site. This is while there's an ongoing study by the Gates foundation on the effectiveness of this sort of program.

Could it be that these institutions want to give the impression that no one wants the $100 MOOC alternatives to their $800-1500 courses?

1: http://technical.ly/baltimore/2013/09/05/umuc-to-offer-credi...