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April 22, 2013
How to Improve Public Online Education: Report Offers a Model
By Charles Huckabee
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.
Those efforts fall along a continuum of organizational levels, says the report. At the low end of the spectrum, course availability, pricing, transferability of credit, and other issues are all determined at the institutional level, by colleges, departments, or individual professors, resulting in a patchwork collection of online courses that's difficult for stud
Jac Londe on 27 Nov 12Dans cette page ; Les principales sources d'énergie et leurs consommations aux USA et dans le monde. Remarquez la faible place qu'occupe les énergies dites vertes dans ce tableau, et ce malgré les beaux discours corpocrates. / On this page you'll find the USA and world consumption of main streamming energies. The green ones are really poor, nonobstant what we see, hear and read in the medias, -30-
