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Internet as Powerful and Convenient Lifelong Learning Tool PBS, Barnes & Noble, University of Phoenix, University of California Berkley Extension Among Premier Education Companies Providing Courses and Content America Online Inc. announced the launch of the AOL Online Campus (KW: Online Campus), advancing the vision of the Internet as a powerful and convenient lifelong learning […]
Farhad Saba, Ph. D. CEO, Distance-Educator.com 2001: Year of Consolidation This was the year that distance education consolidated its position in institutions of higher education, and the corporate world. In 1995, about 30% of institutions of higher education were involved in some form of online education. Today, almost all institutions have students who are off-campus […]
Farhad Saba, Ph. D. CEO, Distance-Educator.com 2001: Year of Consolidation This was the year that distance education consolidated its position in institutions of higher education, and the corporate world. In 1995, about 30% of institutions of higher education were involved in some form of online education. Today, almost all institutions have students who are off-campus […]
Former FCC chief Newton Minow and ex-PBS honcho Lawrence Grossman want Uncle Sam’s help to make the Net a better teaching tool
TECH CORPS, a national nonprofit organization that mobilizes technology volunteers in schools, has expanded its free online mentoring program to include teachers as well as technology professionals.
Viable support for inquiry teaching can come in many forms, all of which are aptly dubbed as “pathways to reform” by the National Science Education Standards (NRC, 1996). The reforms called for in the Standards focus on the changes required to ensure excellent inquiry-based K-12 science instruction for all students. Viable pathways to such reforms […]
Farhad Saba, Ph. D. CEO, Distance-Educator.com 2001: Year of Consolidation This was the year that distance education consolidated its position in institutions of higher education, and the corporate world. In 1995, about 30% of institutions of higher education were involved in some form of online education. Today, almost all institutions have students who are off-campus […]
The promises of distance education to provide high-quality educational pro-grams that can be undertaken anywhere and at any time are not new. Similar promises were made early in the 20th century by correspondence study programs. These programs failed to realize their promises because they were confronted by a fundamental trade-off between quality – personalized education […]
Blackboard Inc. and CollegisEduprise, Inc., announced today an expanded relationship to provide a suite of comprehensive tools and services to assist higher education institutions in the development and implementation of their e-Education initiatives. The growing relationship between Blackboard and CollegisEduprise blends their respective software and services, allowing an institution to deploy a cost-effective and comprehensive […]
Sailors and officers in the United States Navy will be able to learn technical skills via the Web as the Navy redesigns its course-writing software to embrace new computer standards being developed in part in a laboratory at the University of Wisconsin.