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Hawai’i Senate Bill: Would mandate OER material for all U Hawai’i system courses

Posted on February 9, 2018

Hawai’i senate committee recommends bill mandating OER material for all courses at the University of Hawai’i system over significant faculty protests

WGU Is Not Off the Hook

Posted on October 13, 2017

There have been justifiable complaints that the OIG’s rejection of WGU’s courses was arbitrary. That may be true, but the fact that the judgment was arbitrary doesn’t automatically mean that it was incorrect.

WGU Audit: Likely impacts for fragile movement of competency-based education

Posted on September 25, 2017

Even if IG’s audit recommendations on WGU are not adopted by Dept of Ed, the findings will likely have a big impact in California and in the fragile movement of CBE.

WGU Audit Findings: Interpretations of “regular and substantive” and “self-paced”

Posted on September 23, 2017

The inspector general of the dept of education audits Western Governors University and under hyper-literal interpretation of regulations finds that WGU should not receive Title IV federal funding.

“Alternative Pathways:” How to Rethink Vocational Education

Posted on July 26, 2017

A new report by Tyton Partners provides an alternative lens through which to examine California Governor Jerry Brown’s proposal to develop an online community college and an interesting model framework for analyzing macro educational policy issues in general.

Recommended Reading … or Not: Updates on UC Berkeley and NBER stories

Posted on April 19, 2017

We have a better understanding of UC Berkeley’s decision to remove free video lecture captures in response to an accessibility suit. Less so on Caroline Hoxby’s problematic paper on the ROI of online learning.

Recommended Reading: Ballmer group publishes “Annual Report” on government spending

Posted on April 19, 2017

This is an interesting model for transparency in government, with some good data on public education expenditures as a bonus.

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