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

By Phil Hill. Posted on April 19, 2017

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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: IHE coverage of NBER paper and critiques

By Phil Hill. Posted on March 1, 2017

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Two good pieces in Inside Higher Ed look into Caroline Hoxby’s controversial NBER report. Neither of them is vindicating.

One More Thing on NBER Report: Where did pre-2011 data come from?

By Phil Hill. Posted on February 27, 2017

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The closer we look, the worse it seems.

New NBER Study on Online Education is Deeply Flawed

By Phil Hill. Posted on February 27, 2017

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Caroline Hoxby from Stanford University just published a working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) claiming to analyze “The Returns to Online Postsecondary Education”. This report is a hot mess that that conflates online students, enrollments, programs, institutions and uses a bizarre and misleading data set for its analysis.
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