Friday, May 27, 2011
Why Are So Many Students Still Failing Online?
Online learning has become the third rail in American higher-education politics: Step on it and you're toast.
That's especially true at community colleges, where many leaders have embraced online courses with an almost religious fervor. And we all know why. It's not because anyone is seriously arguing that online classes are consistently better than the face-to-face versions. And it's not even necessarily because students are clamoring for them (although they're clearly popular in certain segments of the population, such as stay-at-home parents, people with full-time jobs, and deployed members of the armed forces). It's because colleges can produce online courses much more cheaply while charging roughly the same tuition.
http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Are-So-Many-Students-Still/127584/
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Billionaire to Pay Kids to Skip College
Monday, May 23, 2011
The Job Market: Is a College Degree Worth Less?
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1946088,00.html
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
New York Times To Offer Online Accredited Courses
The courses will be open to all students and they may be taken individually or used toward an academic certificate.
Friday, May 6, 2011
Classroom 2.0
http://www.youtube.com/elluminated#p/u/1/fKQZM4slwzA