Distance Learning and the ‘Right’ to an Education
This link takes you to a special edition of The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, an e-journal published by Athabasca University in Canada. The central question in the spotlight of this special issue: “What is the Role of Distance Education in the Implementation to the Right to Education?”
With specific reference to […]
It’s Time To Lower Our Academic “Tariff” Barriers
Anyone who was old enough to vote in the 1992 U.S. presidential election is likely to remember the spirited debate among the presidential candidates over the then-proposed North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Who can forget the great line from third-party candidate H. Ross Perot during the presidential debates? Perot stated, “There will be a […]
Online Cheating
Here’s a hot topic many might advise me to avoid: online cheating. Traditional marketing and public relations advisors tend to agree that by bringing up a troublesome issue a person runs the risk of having the issue associated with them and their institution. I, on the other hand, think the readers of this blog are […]
What Accreditation Is and Is Not; Why It’s Time for Change
A college or university’s accreditation status is on almost every parent’s and student’s check list. That’s a good thing. And yet, it is a widely misunderstood and often overly trusted metric. If you want to immerse yourself in the nuance of accreditation from an independent source, here’s a Wikipedia overview of the current system. But […]
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