Anthony A. Pína
How Online Diploma Mills Hurt e-Learning

The increasing ease and scalability of online development and transaction has made the creation and offering of online learning more cost efficient and readily available. It has also facilitated the proliferation of diploma or degree mills--those operations that award "degrees" for little or no academic work. This paper highlights the different ways in which online diploma mills hurt the reputation of legitimate e-learning and hurt students, faculty, employers, job seekers and society. PDF version of the article


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