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ASU launches award-winning online learning environment

Developed by the Applied Learning Technologies Institute (alt^I) at ASU, the proposed Integrated Data to Enhance Arizona’s Learning (IDEAL) program provides parents, students and teachers with a single resource to meet their educational goals and needs.Read the Full Article

AAUP Releases New Numbers on Non-Tenure-Track Faculty

Washington, D.C. — In a new report released today, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) provides new data to document the increasing predominance of non-tenure-track faculty in America’s colleges and universities. Read the Full Article

University of Phoenix rolls out Axia

New college focuses services on recent high school grads, those new to higher education

UI’s Global Campus initiative still far from online

About six months since the University of Illinois announced its plans to establish the Global Campus – an online education initiative that could eventually be like a fourth campus, an accredited, degree-granting entity – faculty, students and administrators are still negotiating the program’s details.Read the Full Article

Online class enrollment on the rise

They will take them in a house. And they will take them with a mouse. And they will take them here and there. Say! They will take them anywhere!Read the Full Story

‘Clicking’ with Students

In addition to the thousands of freshmen and transfer students who arrived on the SDSU campus this fall, a new approach to undergraduate instruction also made its first appearance.Read the Full Story

Online classrooms adaptable

A new trend to address non-traditional students’ need for education away from campus allows them to get their education online. The University of Tennessee offers several ways for students to work for degrees through this type of distance education.Read the Full Story

The Future of Online Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: The Survey Says…

A survey substantiates some ideas about online learning and refutes othersRead the Full Story

Florida students increasingly choose to attend private, for-profit colleges

Forest Hill High School graduate Elizabeth Aubuchon just assumed she’d go to Palm Beach Community College to study radiography – a two-year program that would allow her to do X-rays and MRIsRead the Full Story

More classes on campus taken online

Slide over, laptop-lugging, work-at-will professional. Lounging and logging on next to you is a brand-new species of telecommuter.Read the Full Story