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Guernsey, Lisa – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1997
As the concept of earning a higher education degree at home becomes more accepted, diploma mills operating on the Internet proliferate. Students confuse unscrupulous institutions with legitimate distance education. Many use the World Wide Web as their primary marketing tool, with sites similar to those of accredited colleges, and do not appear to…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Computer Uses in Education, Degrees (Academic), Distance Education
