When Books Break the Bank The prices for textbooks are high enough, and publishers have added the more recent practice of bundling texts with guides or CD-ROMs, and the net result is a cost to students far out of proportion to the value they receive....
American students found trailing foreign teenagers By George Archibald THE WASHINGTON TIMES Report by OECD.
A survey conducted by Babson College and the Sloan Consortium indicates
growing respect among some college administrators--including presidents
and chief academic officers--for the quality of online courses. One-third of the roughly 1,000 survey respondents expect the quality of online courses at their institutions to surpass that of in-class courses within three years. Fifty-seven percent said the quality of Web-based classes already rivals that of in-class teaching. Some administrators, however, particularly at private baccalaureate
institutions, remain skeptical of online teaching. One-third of the respondents said Web-based courses would not become a significant part of the teaching at their institutions. Chronicle of Higher Education, 4 September 2003 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2003/09/2003090401t.htm
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