Note: The 2013 update for this note is in process.
Executive Summary of the DLL's "HBCU Online & Blended Degree Programs -- 2012"
Supply and Demand -- Online Programs in The Great Recession
It’s generally expected that economic downturns drive unemployed workers to enroll in degree and certificate programs that will, hopefully, enable them to acquire new skills which they will use to obtain new jobs; and that employees who still have jobs will enroll in degree and certificate programs in order to acquire new skills that will enable them to keep the jobs they already have.
MOOCs in Brief
The biggest news in distance learning in recent years, both in immediate, eye-popping headlines and in potential long-term impact, was the series of announcements by the nation’s leading universities of their intention to offer free MOOCs – massive open online courses. (Note: Pronounced "mooks" ... For discussions of the original, more extensive concept of a MOOC, click here for Wikipedia and click here for a video.)
Seven HBCU Strategies for Survival and Success
Impending Collapse
Like other members of the HBCU
community,
I have been concerned for many years about the long-term survival of
HBCUs. My obsession with this question has been
expressed in four notes on this blog titled, "Why Are HBCUs
Still Needed?" (Part I, Part II, Part III, and Part IV) and related notes ("From HBCUs to BCUs", "HBCUs as a National
Laboratory", etc). But in recent months my thinking has returned to its
engineering roots. Being needed is not sufficient to ensure the
survival of any institutions under any circumstances. So my question has
become, "What should HBCUs do to survive the impending flood of IT
innovations in higher education that will overwhelm so many non-HBCUs?"
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