Everybody is looking to the Orient... and the Chinese government is encouraging them with the announcement that the Ministry of Education plans to have five million students in 50 to 100 online colleges by 2005. Tere are issues. The article mentions China's prohibition against for-profit educational institutions. It should also talk about China's rigorous content restrictions (how would an online course discuss recent Chinese history, for example?) and potential instability inherent in an undemocratic countr. By Daniel Walfish, the Chronicle of Higher Education, May 21, 2001.
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