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State authorization: Seeing the forest and the trees of regulatory compliance
Reed Scull
Associate Dean of Outreach
University of Wyoming
Co-written with Diane Johnson, Academic Dean, New Charter University
For many of us in distance and continuing education, there was a time when it was possible to be blissfully unaware of the regulatory efforts of federal and state policymakers. But that time has surely passed. Institutions were awakened to the existence of state statutes governing distance education with the October 2010 release of the United State Department of Education (USDOE) administrative regulation. The USDOE mandate would compel educational providers to be authorized to operate in the states where… Continue reading
Posted in Future of Higher Education
Tagged academic administration, continuing education, Diane Johnson, distance learing, institutional efficiency, non-traditional learner, Reed Scull, regulatory compliance, state authorization, United State Department of Education, United States Distance Learning Association, WICHE Cooperative on Educational Telecommunications
More Students Migrate Away From Home
Public universities across the country are engaged in an all-out war for out-of-state students. Deep cuts in support are driving the search for revenue, and in many states, a stagnating pool of local applications has pushed colleges to recruit broadly. The winners, like Arizona State, bring in higher out-of-state tuition and get to skim from a larger pool of prospective students.
Continue reading: chronicle.com
Online education innovators likely to produce the next disruptive tech
Joshua Kim, Director of Learning and Technology for the Master of Health Care Delivery Science Program at Dartmouth College, sees a tremendous market demand, especially globally, for new online learning technology in higher education. Kim argues that the global online higher education space will produce the next start up success story, in part, “because the emerging middle classes of the emerging economies share an insatiable demand for higher education and postsecondary credentialing.”
Posted in Future of Higher Education, Online Education
Tagged distance learing, technology
