May 12th, 2008
Blog Roundup 5/12/08: Maybe Those Adult Students Are Retired Athletes
We start with a post from Educated Nation citing some new numbers for adult education (6.9 million enrolled in fall 2007, to be exact). And if the Sloan Consortium is right, slightly less than half of them are studying online.
Could I ever finish a blog roundup without the help of Higher Ed Watch? I don’t think so. They are doing an excellent job of watchdogging the NCAA as it fails to impose its promised academic standards on colleges that don’t graduate enough players.
Last week I posted a (very) brief students’ guide for navigating the choppy economy. Inside Higher Ed posts a (much more comprehensive) one for colleges themselves.
Remember how we keep talking about Open Educational Resources (OERs)? This blog is rounding ‘em up for you, although we can’t vouch for the quality.
[...] talked here before about OERs (open educational resources) initiatives, and over at Mission to Learn there’s news of another one–a MOOC, or “Massive [...]
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