'Virtual' Institutions Challenge Accreditors to Devise New Ways of Measuring Quality

As technology makes inroads in higher education, critics warn of approving 'experiments'

The first-ever accreditation of a "virtual" institution, Jones International University, has become a flash point in the debate over accrediting standards for on-line higher education. How could a for-profit university, whose only classrooms are in cyberspace, meet the same measures of quality as traditional

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