August 6, 1999

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

By FLORENCE OLSEN

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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