by gary575 | May 20, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
Is this the beginning of the end for mid-tier universities as we know them? Georgia Tech is now offering a Computer Science Masters degree at $134 per credit; this compares to NMSU’s graduate school rate of $271/credit in-state and $814/credit out-of-state. Of...
by gary575 | Apr 22, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
Interesting article here on the rise of “competence-based” testing or education or whatever it is. Belive me the hucksters can smell the money!
by gary575 | Apr 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Online Education Trumps the Cost Disease by Alex Tabarrok on April 16, 2013 at 7:32 am in Economics, Education, Web/Tech | Permalink In a large, randomized experiment Bowen et al. found that students enrolled in an online/hybrid statistics course learned just as much...
by andflywrite | Apr 1, 2013 | GO AHEAD CALLER
About a week or so ago, I posted somewhere the comment that PSA was not working on Higher Ed stuff per se. Today, I want to correct that here. I assumed too much of a status quo situation. Higher Ed is undergoing a great deal of disruption, innovation, and...
by gary575 | Mar 3, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
“Approximately 80% of (full-time) online students live within 100 miles of the institution they attend, and most live within 50 miles.” – go figure. “15% of all online students take courses through the University of Phoenix.” A quick...
