Is College Relevant? That Depends…..

Patrick Riccards over at Eduflack serves up a great post here about the relevance of a college education. 
He points to an article in yesterday’s USA Today in which Mary Beth Marklein wrote of a new Association of American Colleges and Universities study of 301 business leaders.  http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2008-01-22-graduate-assessment_N.htm 
According to her piece, the majority of employers believe that [...]

Looking for Diversity: If You Want To Make The World A Better Place, Dive Into It

Most college websites offer some sort of blah-blah about their commitment to establishing a richly diverse student population.  A little digging generally turns up some sobering statistics, like maybe the fact that only 4% of the student body is non-white or only 2% of the student body comes from outside the US.
In fact, diversity (or [...]

In A Recession, Online Education May Be A Smart Investment

Online education might be a smart investment in terms of your career, but it could be a great addition to your stock portfolio as well.
This piece by Peter Cohan on BloggingStocks.com explains that hard financial times might be the best time to invest in companies that offer online learning options. Apollo Group (to take one example) offers [...]

US, Japan Give Least To Global Education: PLEASE READ THIS

I don’t know about you, but it makes me a little cranky when I read headlines about our country being stingy about things I think are important. 
Cranky and okay, kind of fired up.  I’d like to say something. 
As you know, I’m writing a book on education.  It’s aimed squarely at parents and their kids in [...]

Princeton Resists Pressure To Offer Online Courses

Unlike Yale, Harvard and MIT, Princeton University administrators have not jumped on the distance learning bandwagon. 
This article in the Daily Princetonian offers some interesting quotes from administrators at both Yale and Princeton about the value of online learning.
Princeton, with its $10 billion endowment (one of the highest in the US) certainly has the means to implement [...]

Top Ten Global Trends That Force Us To Rethink Education

I’m a fan of John Moravec and the rest of the gang over at Education Futures.  I mean, it’s one thing for me to blah-blah on this blog, but hearing the experts say the same things is, well, validating.  And exciting.
 You see, John is among a group of innovative thinkers who are calling for a critical shift in the way [...]

Save THOUSANDS of Dollars By Studying Online–But Don’t Take the Wrong Courses!

The rate of enrollment in distance learning courses surpasses the growth in enrollment in face-to-face classes nationally, and two-year associate-degree institutions (community colleges) not only had the highest annual growth rate at 24 percent but also accounted for half of the online enrollments for the past five years. 
Four-year universities, on the other hand, had the [...]

Texas A&M Gets Go-Ahead To Offer Online Doctoral Degree in Education

Cheers can be heard from school administrators who are “place-bound” and longing to earn a doctoral degree in education. 
Regents gave the green light to Texas A&M University to offer online courses to education doctoral students studying curriculum and instruction.