“Accrediting Guidelines for On-line Degrees: Is your program ready to live with the draft Guidelines?”

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“…The World Wide Web will be a transformative medium, as important as electricity.
 …its user can be at once a receiver and a sender of ‘broadcast’ --- a confusing property, but mind-stretching!”

Net or ‘N’ Generation:

What do these students want?

Virtual Educational Worlds

The Net Pushes Institutional Reorganization

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Institutional Reorganizations

A Few Examples of Institutional Consortia

Taxonomy of Consortia & VU’s

What does all this mean for
learners?

Companies are ready to help or take over higher education.

There are still critical quality assurance issues in this new environment.

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That was 8 years ago…

The U.S. quality assurance community is now debating what constitutes an institution.

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Consistent Assessment Protocols

Council of Regional Accrediting Commission’s Guidelines for Distributed Learning

Student Support

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Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications

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