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SPRINGFIELD, Ill., March 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Amidst efforts by the Chicago Teachers Union to shut down the Chicago Virtual Charter school, State Rep. Monique Davis (D – Chicago) has introduced legislation designed to stop public schools from funding a form of distance learning called “virtual schooling.”Read the Full Article
University Park, Pa. — Wayne Smutz has been named to succeed Gary Miller as associate vice president for Outreach and executive director for Continuing and Distance Education. Miller will retire from the University in June. Smutz will assume the role effective July 1. The leadership transition process will start immediately.Read the Full Article
A new report, titled “NCLB and Beyond” put out by the Aspen Institute declares that the United States Congress should reauthorize the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) this year. The bipartisan commission set out to look at NCLB’s success and failures. In its final analysis, the commission released 75 recommendations that it says should […]
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., February 15, 2007—The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (Illinois) is threatening to discipline a student for posting a hyperbolic comment on Facebook.com that the university interpreted as a threat. The comment concerned the debate over Illinois’ mascot, “Chief Illiniwek.†The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is calling on the public university […]
Following a critical state audit of the state’s online schools, an independent commission said Thursday that the state education department should do a better job of tracking the performance of the schools and their students. The Trujillo Commission on Online Education, formed at the request of state Sen. Sue Windels, said the new online division […]
At Chadwick University in Birmingham, students can get a graduate degree based on how much of life they’ve seen.Read the Full Article
Online education is a $10 billion-a-year industry, up from $2.5 billion in 2004, according to the “Postsecondary Education Factbook.” Enrollment for online courses is projected to reach about 1.7 million U.S. students this year, more than three times those enrolled in 2002.Read the Full Article
This research reports findings from a study which explored the process and criteria of partner selection – how and why partners are chosen – for two distance education consortia. The researchers reviewed recent literature on partnerships and partner selection. Two Canada-wide distance education consortia were identified as large-scale case studies for investigation of the research […]
Laureate Education, Inc. plans to become the latest publicly traded for-profit provider of higher education to enter the potentially friendlier confines of the private markets.Read the Full Article
After months of criticism that its patent policies had the potential to squelch important education projects, Blackboard on Thursday announced a “patent pledge†under which it vowed not to assert its patent rights to sue open source projects or home-grown software used by colleges and universities.Read the Full Article
