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Parry, M. (2010) Outsourced Ed: Colleges Hire Companies to Build Their Online Courses Chronicle of Higher Education, July 18 This article suggests a change in corporate tactics regarding the commercialization of online learning. The article argues that due to the increased pressure from the US Department of Education on for-profit online institutions such as [...] Parry, M. (2010) The humanities go Google Chronicle of Higher Education, June 3 In 1959, a physicist and novelist at Cambridge University, C.P. Snow, argued that the breakdown of communication between the “two cultures” of modern society — the sciences and the humanities — was a major hindrance to solving the world’s problems. This [...] Parry, M. (2010) Online Scheme Highlights Fears About Distance-Education Fraud The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 14 Every once in a while comes along a story about distance education that I love to read. This is one of them (the comments are also fun to read). The scam that the woman pulled was so [...] Parry, M. (2010) How to teach with Google Wave Chronicle of Higher Education, January 4 An article about the use of Google Wave by Ray Schroeder at the University of Illinois at Springfield. He has used Google Wave to link classes between Springfield and Sligo Institute of Technology, Ireland. One interesting aspect is [...] Parry, M. (2009) For-Profits Gobble Up More of Online Market Amid Recession Chronicle of Higher Education, December 18. A recent report by Eduventures claims that for-profit universities now constitute 42% of all the post-secondary 2.1-million-student online sector, compared with 9% for the overall post-secondary market (all figures for USA). Furthermore the for-profit ‘bite’ of [...] |
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