Links for 1/29/10

Kevin Carey

the number of college students taking at least one online course increased … to 4.6 million in Fall 2008…

Steady, predictable long-term trends rule the world, but unsteady short-term variance captures all of our attention…

This [video] is not an ad from a company that’s interested in nibbling around the edges of the gigantic market for traditional college degrees. They appear to be aiming right at the heart of it, and the Sloan report numbers indicate that they and others like them are becoming more and more successful over time…

Goldie Blumenstyk

The value of college endowments declined by an average of 23 percent from 2008 to 2009

Doug Lederman

The Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO) project aims to gauge whether it is possible to develop "reliable and useful comparisons of learning outcomes" that are valid across countries…

develop an international version of its Collegiate Learning Assessment…

Tim Ranzetta

the FFEL program had 64.8% share of federal student loans disbursed for the first six months of this academic year (through December 31, 2009)…

what percentage of these FFEL loans have been sold to the Department through the ECASLA Loan Purchase or Loan Participation programs?...

about 67%...

DL loan disbursements grew by 59.3% and FFEL by 9.4%,…