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Stephen Downes

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Jay Cross notes some of the more unsavory aspect of unaccredited online institutions, mentioning Frederick Taylor University ("entirely online, has no classes, and measures student performance with open-book, multiple-choice exams") and Full Sail University (which has been slamming my inbox with recruitment notices). While I think he makes the point, we need to learn a lesson from online music and books: if a legitimate alternative is not available at a reasonable price, people will turn to the illegitimate alternative.

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