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Access to education: Select your school, choose your field; collegiate opportunities abound locally

Postsecondary education is for everyone — the young, the old, the career-oriented, the slackers, those voted most likely to succeed and even the class clown.Read the Full Story

Develop a Degree Roadmap Set Yourself up for Success

The Navy is more serious about education today than ever before. Beginning with the 2010 Senior Chief Selection board, Sailors will need a rating-related Associate’s Degree to move beyond the rank of Chief Petty Officer.Read the Full Story

Students take note of online lectures

College professors worry about absenteeism resulting from high-tech offerings Read the Full Story

UNL to offer online classes to high schoolers

Students at nearly two dozen state high schools can enroll in a new University of Nebraska-Lincoln online program this fall, allowing them to take several classes taught by UNL professors and allowing the state’s flagship university a chance to boost lagging enrollment and grab thousands of tuition dollars.Read the Full Story

Online Library Degrees

Distance learning and online degree programs are options for those seeking library degrees. What concerns should you have?Read the Full Story

Online learning gaining ground

When Isaac Hernandez was shopping around for a master’s degree, he had to choose between top-ranked Thunderbird and Western International University, which specializes in online education.Read the Full Story

Online degrees slowly losing academic stigma

The number of college students earning online degrees has exploded in the past few years, but the legitimacy of a virtual education is still uncertain in the business world and traditional academia, experts say.Read the Full Story

Online College Courses Increasingly Popular

(AHN) – According to a recent survey by The Sloan Consortium, an online education group, at least 2.3 million people took some kind of online course in 2004. The survey also shows that two-thirds of colleges offering “face-to-face” courses also offer online ones.Read the Full Story

Drexel University’s College of Nursing and Health Professions Surpasses 500 Online Graduate Nursing Students

Offering eLearning options for almost a decade, Drexel University’s College of Nursing and Health Professions will have a record number of more than 500 graduate students studying entirely online in the upcoming Winter 2006 term.Read the Full Story

Online ‘distance’ learning is closer to mainstay now

Andy Steele lives just a few blocks from the campus of Black Hills State University in Spearfish, S.D., so commuting to class isn’t the problem. But he doesn’t like lectures much, isn’t a morning person and wants time during the day to restore motorcycles.Read the Full Story