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Are Online Classrooms As Good As The Traditional Model?

AP | By KRISTEN WYATT and IVAN MORENO | Posted 12.16.2011

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DENVER -- More schoolchildren than ever are taking their classes online, using technology to avoid long commutes to school, add courses they wouldn't ...

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Chris Kirkham

With Goldman's Foray Into Higher Education, A Predatory Pursuit of Students and Revenues

HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Kirkham | Posted 12.14.2011

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Education Management Corp. was already a swiftly growing player in the lucrative world of for-profit higher education, with annual revenues topping $1...

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Community College Students Perform Worse Online Than Face To Face

The Chronicle of Higher Education | Eric Hoover | Posted 09.20.2011

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Community-college students enrolled in online courses fail and drop out more often than those whose coursework is classroom-based, according to a new ...

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Gates Foundation Aims to Put The .Edu in Education

Leah Finnegan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Leah Finnegan

Picture this: You're sitting at a terminal with multiple screens. You're at once being lectured, taking a test and seeing how you're doing. This feedback loop doubles your productivity and improves your retention, too. At Carnegie Mellon University, this hyper-interactive system is called statistics class.

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Let Vets Have College Choice

Jon Soltz | Posted 05.25.2011

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A new rule from the Department of Education puts use of our successful GI Bill to attend online colleges in jeopardy by placing restrictions on how much many online universities receive in federal aid.

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More Colleges Outsource Online Course Offerings

The Chronicle of Higher Education | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Tricoli was a middle manager looking for a leg up in his career, so he got an online M.B.A. from Northeastern University. Well, not only fr...

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