This suggests that we should be far more interested in the peers a campus supplies than the content of courses and the quality of instruction.

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The best way to do it is to offer a complete content dining plan that accounts for each of the five main courses of the content marketing meal and satisfies the target audience no matter where they are in that meal.

FORBES: 5 Courses of the Content Marketing Meal

LON-CAPA is a distributed networked system that allows the sharing of content across institutions and courses.

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These universities will be responsible for the content, quality, accreditation and cost of courses offered online.

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Because Coursera does not produce its own content or administer degree courses, "you have to work within the framework of the institutions that are actually good at that, " she said.

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