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Saturday, May 4, 2013
How to Improve Public Online Education: Report Offers a Model - Charles Huckabee, Chronicle of Higher Ed
Public colleges and universities, which educate the bulk of all American college students, have been slower than their counterparts in the for-profit sector to embrace the potential of online learning to offer pathways to degrees. A new report from the New America Foundation suggests a series of policies that states and public higher-education systems could adopt to do some catching up. The report, "State U Online," by Rachel Fishman, a policy analyst with the foundation, analyzes where public online-education efforts stand now and finds that access to high-quality, low-cost online courses varies widely from state to state.
http://chronicle.com/article/How-to-Improve-Public-Online/138729/