January 2008 – Page 3

OEDb announces best online programs

The Online Education Database (OEDb), a database of accredited online education programs, has released its 2008 online college rankings. This is the second year for the rankings. Since there are only 96 accredited online colleges, the universe for this ranking is narrow. But OEDb looks at all the important metrics — acceptance rate, financial aid, graduation rate, peer web citations, retention rate, scholarly citations, student-faculty ratio, and years accredited — and uses a fairly straightforward methodology.

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Now playing: Cat Power – Song To Bobby
via FoxyTunes (OEDb)

Facebook fading, but what will be next?

Yes, professor, we know that Facebook is passe (via Wired Campus). Missouri S&T students were telling me that the minute Zuckerberg opened it up to the barbarians at the gates and started slingin’ all those apps at them.

But as the hordes leave Facebook, the question is:

What will take its place?

Will 2008 be the year of Twitter? Could the twits usher in an era of world peace via microblogging? (Yes, Judy, I know you’re not buying any of it.)

Or maybe it’s time for the backlash — the revenge of the anti-social network. Anyone signed up for Hatebook yet?

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Now playing: Spoon – Don’t Let It Get You Down
via FoxyTunes