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The Sloan Consortium has honored Penn State’s World Campus and the World Campus’ leader with two 2011 awards for excellence in online teaching and learning. SOURCE: PRWebRead the Press Release
Laura Stough has a passion for preparing responders in disaster situations to provide top-notch care for individuals with disabilities and functional needs. In the wake of the Texas wildfires, that passion hit all too close to home.SOURCE: Texas A&MRead the Full Article
If college students were in a reality television show about off campus life, they would vote to keep their computers, smartphones and televisions while quickly eliminating cable/satellite television, GPS systems and Blu-ray disc players, new research from Ball State University reveals. Source: Ball State UniversityRead the Full Article
College graduates are the fastest-growing group of consumers who have filed for bankruptcy protection in the past five years, according to a new study by a financial nonprofit, which underscores the broad reach of the Great Recession.SOURCE: The Washington PostRead the Full Story
With dueling hypothetical examples, the chief advocate of a proposed e-mail policy for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and critics of the plan are debating whether it should be adopted.SOURCE: Inside Higher EdRead the Full Article
An arms race between instructors and students continues to escalate.SOURCE: Inside Higher EdRead the Full Story
NationsUniversity, a church-supported distance-learning program that offers academic degrees in religious studies, recently reached an enrollment of 5,006 students. That’s an all-time record for the 15-year-old program, said President Alan D. Cooper.SOURCE: The Christian ChronicleRead the Full Sotry
A store clerk may think it unnecessary to watch out for shoplifters because antitheft technology does the job for them.SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher EducationRead the Full Article
As soon as the handheld gadgets called “clickers” hit the University of Colorado at Boulder, Douglas Duncan saw cheating.SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher EducationRead the Full Article
A site redesign for the eLearning Inventory is now live and available for use by all Ohio State faculty and staff. The Inventory of eLearning tools and resources can be found at elinventory.it.ohio-state.edu. SOURCE: The Ohio State University