A few days ago I wrote a post about some the future challenges facing higher education over the next ten years. In that post I covered some of my initial thoughts about the challenges of open content and that I believed the key for universities will be in developing rigorous and consistent assessment in order to help maintain their reputations.

Related to both of these issues is the rise of new players in higher education in what will be an increasingly competitive business. I had planned to write something on this in the near future but I have been spurred into action by two links I came across this morning. The first was a link to a site that provides comparison services for online courses at universities and colleges in the US.

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