Last month, San Jose State University teamed up with Udacity to award credit, for a fee, to students enrolled in three Udacity classes whether or not they were registered students at the California university.

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Dr. Faust, who will also visit South Korea, said China is the "largest supplier" of international students enrolled at the university's campus, in Cambridge, Mass.

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As an American professor who has taught classes at a well-known French university in which both European and American students were enrolled, I must mention the cultural factors at play.

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"It is disturbing that our current players must pay a penalty for the academic performance of students no longer enrolled, " University of Connecticut President Susan Herbst said in a statement.

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With 38, 750 enrolled students, U of H would be second in size only to University of Texas in the Big 12.

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New York University, which signed an agreement with the Abu Dhabi government in 2007, enrolled 148 students in its inaugural fall 2010 undergraduate class.

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The Ohio State University's Matthew "Dr. Fus" Stoltzfus' General Chemistry course enrolled over 100, 000 iTunes U students in the first year it was offered.

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