The University of Phoenix and American Intercontinental University top veteran college enrollment lists, according to a Seattle Post-Intelligencer article appearing yesterday. As the first batch of post 9/11 veterans begins re-assimilating to civilian life, many are taking advantage of the Montgomery GI Bill to acquire degrees. The bill provides a stipend that covers the cost of most community colleges and online schools but falls short of most public university tuition levels.

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The July 30 edition of Education Weekly reveals a troubling Obama campaign memo that maligns publicly-funded online learning solutions. The memo reflects an unsophisticated perspective on online education, referring to most online schools as “for-profit” organizations that would squander taxpayer money.

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As internet giants Google and Microsoft jockey for dominance in the realm of web-based services, institutions of higher learning have benefited from this competition in the form of free services. Google so far leads Microsoft by a wide margin: roughly 2000 institutions worldwide have outsourced some aspect of their web services (generally email) to Google since 2006. This September, Google will be touring the country in an environmentally-friendly bus as part of the aptly-named “App to School” tour. The tour aims to promote Google’s portfolio of web-based applications as well as solicit feedback from student end-users.

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