Online courses fail to reach poor students, survey shows - Nicole Ostrow, Bloomberg News

The authors looked at 34,779 responses from a University of Pennsylvania survey in July of students in 32 course sessions. The classes were offered by Coursera Inc., a venture-capital- backed, for-profit company started by two Stanford University professors offering more than 500 courses. They found that 83 percent of the students already had a two-year or four-year college degree, and the majority had education levels exceeding the general population in their country, including both developing and non-developing nations. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-wp-blm-news-bc-online-study20-20131120,0,1625735.story