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University Park, Pa. — The Sept. 11 terrorist attack, the tsunami in Asia and recent U.S. hurricanes are testing the skills of disaster planners and first-responders worldwide. What is clear from these tragedies is that well-trained emergency personnel are critical to preparing for and responding to disasters.Read the Full Story
“I shouldn’t be doing this. I’ll be going up for tenure soon,†wrote Daniel Drezner on September 10, 2002, in introducing his blog, which quickly built a large audience of academics and others with its observations on politics, international relations and economics.Read the Full Story
Arizona’s universities will deliver more than 115,000 credit hours to students via the internet this year.The growing demand for distance-learning services has the Arizona Board of Regents expanding online course offerings at the three state universities.Read the Full Story
countless debates and left countless professors disgruntled, one position has remained relatively stable: in the age of the Internet and daily revolutions in communication technology, our education should be preparing us to be global citizens.Read the Full Story
Arizona’s universities will deliver more than 115,000 credit hours to students via the internet this year.The growing demand for distance-learning services has the Arizona Board of Regents expanding online course offerings at the three state universities.Read the Full Story
OCCASIONALLY, academic John Carmichael has been forced to take peculiar measures to record what he calls “fireside chats” for his off-campus students.Once he recorded a chat from under a bed. It may not have been the most comfortable position but it helped to drown out the noise of excited six-year-olds at a birthday party in […]
SERGEANT BLUFF, Iowa — Sequestered in a spare bedroom once home to her son, Terry McFarland sat in front of an off-white computer monitor, staring down the work ahead of her as the October sun began setting outside her window.Read the Full Story
A free online course from Northampton Community College is the difference between Deborah Jeffcoat getting her degree in nursing on time, or having to wait yet another year to begin her first career after a divorce.Read the Full Story
Starting this fall, the Boston University College of Fine Arts began offering a masters and doctoral degree program in Music Education online, which provides opportunities for music education thousands of miles away from the university’s campus.Read the Full Story
Considering the need to increase skilled manpower in the country, the Addis Ababa University (AAU) said it has made a significant change to expand graduate programs as well as continuing and distance education. Students who interrupted classes in April last year will resume classes after a week.Read the Full Story