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Corporate universities? Global
Learning Resources is the definitive source.
List of corporate universities
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Two dozen years ago I designed the first
BSBA degree program for what has become the University
of Phoenix, and I've been tracking practical university education
ever since.
MIT
announced they make the content of 700 courses available online
for free. “We came away quite puzzled as to what the OCW would
really achieve,” said Professor of Architecture William L. Porter
PhD ’69 (following a faculty meeting). Porter described the web-based
resource as an “elaborate catalog” that could neither accurately
represent MIT teaching to the world nor encourage dynamic use of web-based
teaching.
Professor of Civil Engineering John Williams expressed concerns about
the quality of the web-based resource and its reflection on MIT. “We’re
trying to serve too many purposes. There is no chance of stability,”
he said. “We’re going to give away our most valuable asset
for what I consider to be a half-baked business plan.”
The Virtual
Diploma, Upside (4/00) "Already hundreds of traditional colleges
-- including Stanford University, Georgetown, and Florida State -- have
added ".com" to their names, with others soon to follow. Dozens of independent
startups have joined the fray as well, either by developing unique courses
or by partnering with existing schools to create and promote online
programs."
Is Distance
Education the same thing as eLearning? (No)
Institute for Learning Tech,
Columbia
Stanford Learning Lab
Who, What, Where
unext -- Michael Milken's money
+ Stanford, Colulmbia, and Chicago's names + Don Norman
Educause -- transformational
change in higher education through...information resources and technologies
in teaching, learning, scholarship, research, and institutional management.
Policy issues.
Indiana University
Pennsylvania State
Pitt State
San Diego State Educational Technology
University of Wisconsin - Madison & Distance
Learning Resource Network
| Company/launch date |
Courseware |
| Capella
University/1993 |
500 courses
by end of 2000; M.B.A., master's degree and Ph.D. programs |
| Cenquest/1997 |
100 graduate business courses;
3 certificate programs; 2 master's degrees |
| Fathom/2000 |
7,000 undergraduate
and graduate courses by end of 2000 |
| Jones
International Univ/1995 |
80 courses; 26 certificate
programs; M.B.A. |
Pensare/1998 |
30 business
education courses; M.B.A. |
| UNext/1997 |
100 graduate-level business
courses by end of 2000 via its Cardean University |
| Univ
of Phoenix Online/1989 |
800 undergraduate
and graduate courses; 35 degree programs; M.B.A. |
Sources: Companies. Forbes,
May 15, 2000
Proprietary
Higher Education: Intellectual Capital for the Knowledge Economy,
SunTrust Equities Research (1/2000),
A worthy skeptical
view appears in the July 1999 Scientific
American.
In his initial paper, Noble (1997) contends that university administrators,
in collusion with high-tech corporations and emerging educational industries,
are plotting the top-down, profit-driven commercialization of higher
education as "courseware."
The Crossroads
between Lifelong Learning and Information Technology: A Challenge Facing
Leading Universities
Corporate University Exchange,
Jeanne Meister.
Articles on universities
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People searching for diploma mills sometimes end up on
my site. In this morning's email:
"I´m interested in buying a MBA diploma. Send me the
price, name of university and delivery time to Colombia."
USA Today reports, "MicroStrategy founder and CEO Michael
Saylor, saying he wants to push higher education into the 21st century,
announced plans to contribute $100 million toward founding a cyber-university
that would offer a free "Ivy League" education to anyone with access to
a computer and a modem." The Microstrategy free university strategy says,
"the greatest minds ...would not be paid...no actual interaction between
teachers and students." Lotsa luck.
Plato
as Distance Learning Pioneer (First Monday)
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Virtual University Gazette
Stanford
is thinking about its approaches to eLearning.
On the one hand, "..internet-based technology provides Stanford the opportunity
for involvement in distance learning on a vastly larger scale than in
the past. Stanford faculty should be encouraged to make full use of these
opportunities, in accord with Stanford's mission of developing and transmitting
knowledge."
However, you wanna make an omelet, you break a few eggs: "While developments
in distance learning represents an important opportunity for Stanford
to better serve its educational and research missions, they may also create
situations that do not fit easily into the fabric of policy and tradition
that has developed to govern teaching, research, academic entrepreneurship
and institutional fund-raising."
This Internet stuff is great but let us never forget that, "The centrality
of the undergraduate and graduate students in residence at Stanford, paying
tuition and pursuing degrees, must remain in clear focus."
So, faculty members, don't sign any private deals without check with
us first, because, "Stanford faculty members owe their primary professional
allegiance to the University, and their primary commitment of time and
intellectual energies should be to the education, research and scholarship
programs of the institution. Faculty should be cautious about arrangements
that might put themselves into competition with Stanford, in either its
research or teaching missions. As required by the Faculty Policy on Conflict
of Commitment and Interest, faculty must disclose any such outside activities
or financial interests that may constitute such competition, or could
be perceived to do so, to their school."
And if you do cut any deals on the side, don't mention your affiliation
with us: "The university has the duty and right to control the use of
the Stanford name, both to ensure fair compensation for the use of the
name and to assure the university's high standards are not eroded."
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