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Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Friday, July 24, 2009
President's Community College Initiative Promising - Tom Vander Ark, Huffington Post
But we should use a big investment like the one the President proposed to make some big improvements.... Sell competence not credits: community colleges could lead the higher ed transition from doing time to demonstrating performance. Most community colleges have small credit recovery labs--early examples of personalized online learning. Investment in a handful of pilot programs that blend online and onsite learning around career competencies would make a big contribution to the field.

 



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