College credit for open online courses gains momentum

The American Council on Education, a nonprofit organization that represents most of the nation’s college and university presidents, is preparing to weigh in on massive open online courses—MOOCs, for short—a new way of teaching and learning that has taken higher education by storm in recent months.

https://www.eschoolnews.com/2012/11/13/college-credit-for-open-online-courses-gains-momentum/