 Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois SpringfieldOnline Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield |
|
|
Online Learning News and Research
Online Learning Update HOME Times and Dates Coordinated Universal Time
Search Online Learning Blog Archives
|
Friday, January 23, 2009
Online and on the money - Stephen Hoare, the Guardian UK
The global credit crunch and rising unemployment have provided a surprise boost for web-based higher education in the US. State universities and their for-profit counterparts have expanded distance-learning operations massively in the past five years by reaching out to adults in the workplace who want to improve their skills and employability. Now they are poised to offer degree programmes and accelerated-learning courses to newly unemployed adults, many of whom are eligible for government education grants. Of the 6,700 universities in the US, 2,700 are for-profit institutions, making this sector the largest of its kind anywhere in the world. The for-profit institutions' degree-awarding powers and the quality of their learning materials are certified by regional or national accrediting bodies.
Comments:
Post a Comment
Online Learning News Blog Archives OTEL - Ray's Home Page - Notebook - UIS Online - U of I Online - UIS Home Fair Use
|
