Online courses on the rise
Local colleges and universities are continuing to see increases in the number of students logging in for online courses, a practice becoming more and more integrated into mainstream higher education.Read the Full Article
Archive for the ‘Higher Education’ Category
Corinthian Colleges Expands Executive Team of Online Learning Division
SANTA ANA, Calif., March 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Corinthian Colleges, Inc. (NASDAQ: COCO) has appointed Steve Quattrociocchi president, CCi Online, a unit of the company’s Online Learning Division (formerly the Pegasus Division).Read the Full Article
UMassOnline Reports Record Enrollment and Revenue Increases for Fiscal Year 2007
SHREWSBURY, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–UMassOnline, the online learning division of the University of Massachusetts, announced record revenue and enrollment results for fiscal year 2007. Program revenue grew by 32.1 percent and enrollment increased by 25 percent, in fiscal year 2007 (July 2006 – June 2007), the largest growth rate recorded in more than three years. Revenue from […]
Mountain State University Offers Online Leadership Degrees That Give Business Professionals the Edge
Mountain State University (MSU) offers two online degrees that go beyond facts and figures to enable students to gain a strong set of leadership skills. The online Master of Science in Strategic Leadership (M.S.S.L.) and Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Organizational Leadership provide invaluable instruction to help students envision goals, build teams and lead those […]
Online learning making big strides: SUNY campuses among front-runners
ALBANY — Dwight Schuman returned to school in the summer of 2006 to study adolescence education, 11 years after he left college with a less-than-stellar grade point average.Read the Full Article
Exploring the mechanisms for assuring quality of e-learning courses in UK higher education institutions
This paper reports on a research study aimed at understanding how dual mode higher education institutions in the UK approach the application of their internal quality assurance procedures to their online courses in order to allow them to assure and enhance their quality. The research strategy aimed to identify whether the procedures implemented were capturing […]
Instant Messaging in On-Site and Online Classes in Higher Education
A study of student IM usage reveals many advantages and some obstacles to using IM as a classroom communication toolRead the Full Article
Black Colleges Expand Distance Learning
More historically black colleges — especially in the public sector — are offering distance education.Read the Full Article
Virtual Mentoring in Higher Education: Teacher Education and Cyber-Connections
This study explored the benefits and limitations of mentoring relationships between pre-service and practicing K-12 teachers. Thirteen pre-service education students at a university in the southeastern United States and 17 practicing teachers from four states participated. The student participants were in their senior year in a teacher education program, during the semester just previous to […]
Languages Without Language Faculty
Back in 2001, Drake University did what to many language professors was nothing less than horrific: It announced that foreign language instruction wasn’t working, killed its language departments, and got rid of the instructors, including those with tenure. Drake’s president promised some sort of new approach, based on study abroad and individualized online instruction. Language […]