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Thursday, September 25, 2003
Digital Diploma Mills and Accreditation - Anthony G. Picciano, Sloan-C View
.... For those of us who actually teach at legitimate schools where students invest tuition and years of work to earn their degrees, diploma mills are troublesome. For Sloan-C members who share the purpose of making quality education affordable and accessible, the proliferation of mills is more than troubling because they undermine public acceptance of online learning, feeding doubts about the unknown.... Part of the solution to questions about integrity is for higher education to support quality claims with empirical evidence. In fact, more and more, accrediting agencies are requiring formal outcomes assessment measures as part of accreditation reviews. Also helpful are voluntary "seal of approval" organizations that collect and publicize information on quality online schools and programs.
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