by Jennifer Epstein, Inside Higher Education
For-profit colleges in one camp and everyone else in another may be the prevailing theme of higher education policy this fall, but online institutions, regardless of their tax status, were all in one camp Tuesday at a discussion of the challenges they face in proving quality and value while offering a kind of learning that’s very different from the hidebound practices of traditional colleges and universities. The dominant concern coming from the leaders of online programs at the seventh meeting of the Presidents’ Forum — a group of institutions that serve adult students primarily online — was proving they offer quality and value as the U.S. Department of Education and Congress begin roundabout efforts to measure those things.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/10/13/forum
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