Wharton Business School’s Almost Free Online Courses

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Melissa Korn, With Free Web Courses, Wharton Seeks Edge in Traditional Program. Wall Street Journal, May 1, 2014.
stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2-520910/
(Wharton introduced its first MOOC in 2012, will have 15 MOOCs on the Coursera Inc by year-end [which] don’t carry any credit toward a Wharton degree; By comparison, Harvard Business School’s newest online offerings are neither massive nor open, with admission standards and a price tag)

Note:
(a) The German surname Lorn is “from Middle High German korn ‘grain.’”
(b) Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is oldest business school in US, established in 1881 through a donation from Joseph Wharton.
(c) Coursera
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coursera
(a for-profit company)

charges “$49 student-verification certificate,” according to this WSJ report.