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20 million more graduates needed in the USA

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Carnavale, A. and Rose, S. (2011) The Undereducated American Washington DC: Georgetown University Centre n Education and the Workforce This short report by two prestigious...

Online learning in the Garden of Eden

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Daniel, J. (2011)  20 Years of Distance Education in the Garden of EDEN: Good News and Bad News EDEN 20th Anniversary Conference: Learning and Sustainability:...

For-profits, student loans, new rules, and how these affect students in the USA, Canada...

For profits are in the news again for several reasons. The Obama administration has produced new rules that determine whether for-profit institutions will qualify for...

How does the University of Phoenix measure up?

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University of Phoenix (2010) 2010 Annual Academic Report University of Phoenix AZ: University of Phoenix This is third academic annual report from the University of...

e-learning retrospective: 2) how good were my predictions?

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On December 30, 2009, I posted my predictions for 2010: 1. Follow the money: 'In many countries, 2010 will be a difficult year financially....So we’ll have...

Signs of revolution in Britain and what it might mean for us in North...

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It's worth watching carefully what is happening in Britain with university education. As part of its austerity program, the British Conservative-Liberal-Democrat coalition govt is...

Main findings from the 2010 Campus Computing Project

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Green, K. C. (2010) Managing Online Education, Encino CA: The Campus Computing Project,/WCET Kolowich, S. (2010) Internal barriers to online expansion, Inside Higher Education, November...

Towards a national framework for degrees?

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Lederman, D. (2010) Borrowing from Bologna? Inside Higher Education, September 13 This is a report of an interesting initiative by the Lumina Foundation in the...

An essay on the impact of the digital age on scholarship and institutions

Katz, R. (2010) Scholars, Scholarship, and the Scholarly Enterprise in the Digital Age Educause Review, Vol. 45. No. 2, pp. 44-56 It is always interesting...

A marketer’s view of higher education in the USA

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For those of you not familiar with Seth Godin's excellent blog on marketing, take a look at his latest blog: The coming melt-down in higher...