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A number of online MBAs are now running on the Coursera learning platform. Now the learning platform is reducing the disproportionately high fees – but only for business schools that offer several courses.
Until now, a university had to pay 40 percent of the tuition fees to Coursera if it wanted to use the learning platform for its course – a disproportionately high sum when you consider that the universities design the course, create the learning material and sometimes also teach it.
Now the US platform reduced costs by up to 25 percent, but only if the universities use Coursera for several courses. The first two universities to use the new cost structure are the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with four Masters programs including the iMBA and the University of Colorado Boulder with two Masters programs.
According to the Coursera website, the platform currently offers an MBA at the Brazilian In the USA, the country of origin of the MBA, the business schools are mostly affiliated with universities and therefore roughly correspond to the economics department of a German university. However, they enjoy (…)
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The high costs were also a reason why ESMT 2018 joined forces with leading global business schools to offer MBA programs on their own digital learning platform. The common platform forms the heart of the Future of Management Alliance (FOME), the first collaboration of its kind in the field of management training. “This new alliance allows us to maintain full control over our intellectual property,” said Nick Barniville, Associate Dean of Degree Programs at ESMT Berlin at the time. At the same time, the shared digital platform creates a long-term, sustainable company model. In this way, one can avoid outsourcing the entire digital implementation of the courses to external providers.
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In addition to ESMT and the British Imperial College Business School, the BI Norwegian Business School, the American Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University, the French EDHEC Business School, the HKUST Business School in Hong Kong, the Spanish IE Business School, the Canadian Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario, the Lee Kong Chiang School of Business at Singapore Management University, the Australian University of Melbourne and the Italian Luiss Business School
The pandemic brought tremendous growth to Coursera. The number of courses has increased by 55 percent and the number of students reached has increased by 81 percent.
