Some colleges that have used online-education companies have pulled back from outsourcing, at least to a degree, out of concerns over both academic principles and high prices. Although Embanet’s chief executive says deals that cost colleges 85 percent are increasingly not the norm — at one conference, he characterized the company’s cut as anywhere from 50 to 85 percent — Boston University came to see the price of outsourcing as too steep in the long run… "We couldn’t let an outside party be responsible for the quality of our instruction — that was just too problematic on a long-term basis," Mr. Halfond says. He added, "We didn’t want to be dependent on a for-profit company in terms of our academic reputation."

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by Marc Parry, The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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