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Any database or easy way to tell which online programs are run by OPMs?
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After reading this article and many others about 2U (as well as the other major OPMs), it seems likely that most OPM-based programs are probably inferior to schools that run their own programs.  At the very least, the professors, from what I have read and heard, are less engaged, since they are teaching somebody else's course plan/curriculum. 

When I was looking for my MSW, I specifically looked for (and found) programs that were developed in-house by the school's own faculty and did not use an OPM.  I got to where I could tell fairly quickly by looking at a college's website whether it was an OPM-run site, or a school's own site, but that got me to thinking...

Is there any database, or any current listing anywhere, of which schools use OPMs and which do not?  A school that does not use an OPM would certainly be a plus for me, both because of my thoughts above and because it seems that, almost without fail, the non-OPM schools are MUCH less expensive.

Thoughts?
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Here's a partial list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_pro...ey_service
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You'll find at many schools that there are staff who develop the courses and not the professors. This isn't always farmed out.
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I wouldn’t just dismiss them all. Other articles have also detailed that building it out on their own becomes far too costly. There has to be a healthy balance.
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