Online Educators Won't Be Forced to Spy on Students, New Rules Say
Distance educators won't have to become FBI-style investigators, using expensive tactics to ensure that students are who they say they are, a new federal rule says.
View ArticleDeals for 2 Companies Heat Up For-Profit Sector
The Education Management Corporation plans to go public again, and the owner of Vatterott Colleges said it was selling the chain to another investor group.
View ArticleTeaching Online From 'Mortaritaville' in Iraq
Amid dust storms and incoming mortar rounds, an economics professor serving in Iraq kept her classes going in North Dakota by teaching online.
View ArticleJack Welch Sets Out to Upend Online Business Education
The famous chief executive has started a management institute at Chancellor University that will offer an affordable, rigorous M.B.A. program.
View ArticleOnline-Course Limits, Rooted in Maryland's Racial History, Could Raise Issues...
University of Maryland University College cannot offer an online program to state residents because it would compete with a historically black college.
View ArticleCombating Myths About Distance Education
Why online teaching isn't as easy or as bad as you think.
View ArticleInspector General Keeps the Pressure on a Regional Accreditor
The office has reaffirmed a recommendation that the Education Department consider sanctions against an accreditor in the Midwest.
View ArticleCredit Hours Should Be Worth the Cost, House Panel Members Say
Democrats criticized an accreditor at a hearing for not setting minimum standards for how much time students spend in the classroom.
View ArticleAccreditor Takes a Tougher Look at Sales of Colleges
The accreditor says it has adopted new standards on the transfer of accreditation to keep that status from being sold like a commodity.
View ArticleFor the Chancellor of a New Online Campus, Every Workday Is About Branding
Allison Barber, who once worked for the Defense Department, now spends her days trying to find adults in underserved groups to enroll in WGU Indiana.
View ArticleTom Joyner Venture Will Help Black Colleges Start Online Programs
The radio-show host's company intends to assist the colleges in competing against for-profit institutions in enrolling minority students.
View ArticleDefense Dept., Congress Seek to Improve Academic Programs That Serve the...
Members of Congress said on Wednesday that more may need to be done to monitor the rigor of college programs used by Department of Defense tuition-aid recipients.
View Article2 For-Profit Education Companies Seek to Move West for Accreditation
Geography, rather than concerns about the association that accredits them now, accounts for the move, officials say.
View ArticleA Christian University Reaches Out to Spanish Speakers Online
Liberty University en Espanol will provide bilingual degree programs aimed at Hispanic church leaders and recent immigrants.
View ArticleNew Business Models for Higher Education
"In practice, accreditation is not an indicator of course quality, but an indicator of institutional dependence on taxpayer support."
View ArticleOnline and For-Profit Colleges Face Beefed-Up Aid Audits From Education Dept.
The department plans more program reviews of publicly traded for-profit colleges and of all institutions with large distance-education programs.
View ArticleFor-Profit, From the Inside
As proprietary colleges come under increasing fire, we should keep in mind what they do right, says someone with firsthand experience.
View ArticleIn Learning, the Lasting Value of Place
Online education will be part of the future, but on-site instruction brings benefits beyond the obvious.
View ArticleHow to Save the Traditional University, From the Inside Out
Not every university can be Harvard, and most should stop trying, say Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring.
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