For now, it's the former, but as Coursera and others plow more time, resources and capital into their Signature Track-style programs, the more they will compete with campuses, institutions themselves — and the diploma.
Suddenly buildings that were previously on back streets, like the cluster that forms the Rhode Island School of Design's campus, found themselves looking out on riverside greenswards.
The real masterstroke, though, was the purchase of a hundred Flip video cameras, which were delivered to the on-campus interns themselves with a minimum of instructions.
The Chinese athletes are being housed in dormitories at the University of Leeds, and the state-run newspaper China Daily reported that the Olympians were not permitted to leave the campus by themselves.
Members of the band Hippo Campus find themselves having some meta-CG fun in their new music video for "western kids," which sees them cavorting about inside, of all places, some 3D animation software.
Campuses usually lend themselves to these networks because they are self-contained, technology managers say.
"Foreign universities don't want to set up new campuses, to spread themselves too thin," said Shalini Sharma, an adviser at the Confederation of Indian Industry.
California has seen relentless efforts by the CSU campuses to make themselves more like the UC, taking on wherever possible all the academic trappings of the traditional research university.
Tuesday in Sacramento, an Assembly committee rejected a proposal that would have allowed victims of domestic violence to carry concealed weapons onto school campuses to protect themselves from their abusers.
According to government figures, every year Hong Kong's universities attract about 9,000 mainland Chinese students, who find themselves on campuses that are more free and more politicized than those back home.
