Why most universities have such lousy web sites

Kolowich, S. (2010) No laughing matter Inside Higher Education, August 4

In case, like me, you missed this gem during the holidays, it is well worth looking up. Randall Munroe did a cartoon on his popular Web comic xkcd. The cartoon shows a Venn diagram with two overlapping circles — one labeled “Things On [...]

The case for for-profit colleges

Keith Hampson’s Higher Education Management Group blog, “And now, we hear from the defense.” (For-Profit Higher Education) brings together some of the arguments for and against for-profit higher education in the USA.

See also his personal post on this topic: For-Profit Higher Ed: Notes By A Sympathetic (But Impatient) Traditionalist

One of the most interesting [...]

Why college education costs so much in the USA

Archibald, R. and Feldman, D. (2010) Why does college cost so much? Forbes, August 11

If you can fight your way past the really annoying advertisements on this site, the article is very interesting in its treatment of how technology affects the costs of higher education. The authors are promoting their new book.

They [...]

Another perspective on quality

I have referred in another post to a paper by Maxim Jean-Louis, the President of Contact North, who was one of the participants in the recent HEQCO meeting to discuss possible areas of research that would inform the development of a new Ontario Online Institute. Within that paper, he made some interesting comments on [...]

Another view on research for the Ontario Online Institute

Maxim Jean-Louis, the President of Contact North, was one of the participants in the recent HEQCO meeting to discuss possible areas of research that would inform the development of a new Ontario Online Institute.

Following the meeting, he produced a very interesting document for HEQCO entitled: A Research Framework for the Online Learning Institute [...]