Posted by: Jason
on May 3, 2011
Having gone through accreditation and reaccreditation efforts as a university professor, I find them to be stressful, time-consuming, and expensive endeavors. So why should Christian colleges concern themselves with such difficulties? Well, to paraphrase Churchill, accreditation is the worst form of institutional quality control except all those other forms that have been tried.
Posted by: Jason
on Feb 11, 2010
Yesterday OpenDNS added a new category to their web content filtering system labeled Academic Fraud. As they announced in their press release, academic fraud covers “plagiarism, the buying and selling of papers and reports and other forms of cheating”. However, a follow-up email discussion with OpenDNS Director of Marketing Allison Rhodes revealed that they consider degree and diploma mills part of this category and would enable users to block them as well.
Posted by: Jason
on Jun 26, 2008
Two Regent University colleagues and I have a new book published today by Teachers College Press entitled Distance Learning in Higher Education: A Programmatic Approach to Planning, Design, Instruction, Evaluation, and Accreditation.
Posted by: Jason
on Feb 15, 2008
A few days ago I received three different emails within the same hour offering me the chance to obtain "quality" Ph.D. degrees with no work and only a simple phone call.
