How To Spot a Diploma Mill

Via this link, you can access and watch a short news video hosted by on-air reporter Dave Cherry with 12 News Today, an NBC television broadcast affiliate in Arizona. In this video news segment, Matt Fehling, President of the Better Business Bureau of Central/Northern Arizona talks about how fraudulent diploma “mills” work and a few clear signs […]

On Campus Students Swelling Online Enrollments

This study just out, called The Survey of Distance Learning Programs in Higher Education, 2007-2008 and published by Primary Research Group, reveals something that will be of interest to every online student: About a third of the new people joining you in class online are also attending traditional classes.
For someone like me in marketing, there […]

Taking Exception to a Toledo Times Editorial

Here is an editorial column that appeared recently on the ToledoBlade.com site, which appears to be an online version of The Blade newspaper, all of which seems to be under the management of the Toledo Times. In this opinion piece, the author or authors assert that a college classroom experience is essential to real learning, […]

The Future of the Transnational Higher Education Opportunity?

One of the spectacular features of an online community like this is that it has a global reach. That means, among other things, that with this post I may actually reach and hear back from aspiring college students in distant places, like India for example, where the educational opportunities may not be what they are […]

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