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It's hard to "fathom," but Columbia University, which poured $25 million into its commercial online venture Fathom.com, will pull the plug on April 1 - Industry News
University Business, Feb, 2003 by Jean Marie Angelo
It's hard to "fathom," but Columbia University, which poured $25 million into its commercial online venture Fathom.com, will pull the plug on April 1. Future online education efforts targeted to off-campus learners will be folded under the not-for-profit Digital Knowledge Ventures division at the university.
Fathom.com CEO Ann Kirschner said there are still too many barriers to for-profit, online learning, even learning with an Ivy League cache to it ...
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