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Take Two

Are online courses ready for prime time?

By Take Two Staff
Published Aug 20, 2013
LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 23: Students sit around the Bruin Bear statue during lunchtime on the campus of UCLA on April 23, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. According to reports, half of recent college graduates with bachelor's degrees are finding themselves underemployed or jobless. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
Students sit around the Bruin Bear statue during lunchtime on the campus of UCLA on April 23, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.
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Are online courses ready for prime time?

Massive open online courses, or MOOCS, have generated a lot of excitement and political heat, mainly because they promise to revolutionize education or make it cheaper to offer students the classes they need to graduate.

San Jose State University was one of the first to start experimenting with a pilot program, but as KQED's Charla Bear reports, most students failed the courses.