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Texas A&M University campuses in Corpus Christi and Kingsville will offer three new degree programs through distance education starting in the fall of 2006.Read the Full Story
Ending analog television is becoming the Holy Grail of secondary issues on Capitol Hill. In between judicial appointments, John Bolton, the Patriot Act and the “memo,” lawmakers jockeyed to introduce DTV bills.Read the Full Story
Athabasca University (AU) is the first Canadian university to be awarded accreditation by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE). The Commission is one of six regional organizations in the U.S. that accredits universities.Read the Full Story
Governor Mitch Daniels has proclaimed August 1–5, 2005 as Distance Education Week in the state of Indiana.A kick-off event has been planned at the State House in Indianapolis from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Monday, August 1. More than 300 key educational leaders—as well as state senators, representatives, and officials from state government agencies, […]
April 20, 1952National public broadcasting conference was held at Penn State’s Nittany Lion Inn. More than 100 leaders in education, broadcasting and government gathered to envision a noncommercial educational television service.Read the Full Story
COL, together with experts in copyright, is assisting member countries to gain insights into the present copyright situation, by gathering experiences from developing countries and synthesising this for the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). In this way, COL is striving to help countries implement education-friendly legislation that makes access to learning content affordable for more […]
University Park, Pa. — Penn State Public Broadcasting (PSPB), now WPSX-TV and WPSU-FM, will consolidate its call letters into a single identity, WPSU TV/FM, in October, coinciding with the fall broadcasting season and completion of its move into the new Outreach Building at Innovation Park.Read the Full Story
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, speaking at the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) conference in Washington, D.C., indicated that she might consider a “growth model” of assessment–a system of measuring individual students’ academic improvement as they advance from grade to grade–that could allow states to change how they rate student progress.Read the Full Story
High-speed internet access: Commission opens policy debate on closing the broadband gapRead the Full Story
Strong bipartisan majority supports funding for public broadcasting near FY 2005 levelsRead the Full Story
