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The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of state standards and their associated tests in public schools in order to hold schools, teachers, and students accountable for learning outcomes and achievement. In this qualitative study of eight world history and world geography teachers, the degree to which the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOLs) influenced the […]
The New Media Business Alliance (NMBA) will soon be known as ‘Interactive Ontario’.Read the Full Story
IntroductionThis paper discusses the enormous impact distance learning has had on traditional higher education and leadership roles within those constructs. The writer will address and discuss critical issues relating to leadership in higher education with a distance learning focus, current and future distance education modalities, and future leadership trends. This paper will focus on transformational […]
Colleges and universities possess an exceptional volume and variety of personal information. Given this fact—along with their wide range of activities, the often decentralized nature of their operations, and their growing reliance on technologies that collect and centrally store data—these institutions face significant privacy and security challenges. Unfortunately, to date, most colleges and universities in […]
States should expand precollegiate online learning by allowing teachers to teach across state lines and removing student seat-time requirements, according to a report that tracks the fast growth of state virtual-learning programs.Read the Full Story
States should expand precollegiate online learning by allowing teachers to teach across state lines and removing student seat-time requirements, according to a report that tracks the fast growth of state virtual-learning programs.Read the Full Story
Online tuitions by Indian teachers to American children has come under the US Government scanner after a landmark judgement by the New York Education Department, wherein the department has cancelled the contract of an American tutoring company that was using 250 online Indian teachers. The sole reason being that long distance teachers cannot be subjected […]
The leaders of higher education’s main technology association have written a powerfully worded letter urging Blackboard to relinquish the rights it gained under a controversial patent of online learning technologies in the public domain and to drop a patent infringement lawsuit it filed in August against a Canadian competitor, Desire2LearnRead the Full Story
Total Grant Aid Increased Last Year, But Pell Grants DeclinedRead the Full Story
U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings today released the following statement regarding the College Board’s annual analysis on the cost of colleges and universities and student financial aidRead the Full Story
