A new for-profit service could potentially allow students to satisfy their first-year composition requirement–and other Gen Ed courses–for $99 a course: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/03/31/forthays

But what are the costs of this purported bargain?

Would colleges and universities be able to develop writing cultures, with curricula that build from first-year writing to WAC and WID courses? Would students have the rich peer interaction and collaboration that are essential to their development as writers?

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