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Five Years of Cuba’s “University for All”

Havana, October 3 (AIN) The fifth anniversary of televised classes known as “University for All” was marked on Monday’s broadcast of the Cuban primetime radio and television program “The Round Table.¨Read the Full Story

‘Expand on demand’ new NAU mantra

Northern Arizona University’s president has coined a phrase that matches NAU’s ambitious plans for distance learning.Read the Full Story

$10B gaming field inspires new curricula

Responding to the digital media industry’s appetite for skilled workers and the tastes of a new generation of students raised on Game Boy and Xbox, a growing number of schools and universities–including at least one Ivy League institution–now offer courses in video game design.Read the Full Story

Arizona universities expand online courses

Arizona’s universities will deliver more than 115,000 credit hours to students via the internet this year.Read the Full Story

IU receives national grant to extend its digital music library

BLOOMINGTON, Ind — The Indiana University Digital Library Program today (Sept. 20) received a $768,747 National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to extend its groundbreaking digital music library to college teachers and students across the country. The project will create an online learning and research tool, like the highly successful […]

Customization Beats Commoditization in Distance Learning: A Case for Technology

Printer Diamond helps educators beat “diploma mills” by delivering custom contentRead the Full Story

University to Launch Distance Education

The Alemaya University disclosed that it would launch distance education for degree level programme in eight towns during the current academic year.Read the Full Story

The Internet and the University: Forum 2004 — Papers presented and discussed at the Forum on the Internet and the University, held during the Forum’s 2004 Aspen Symposium

The Internet and the University: Forum 2004 includes the papers presented and discussed at the Forum on the Internet and the University, held during the Forum’s 2004 Aspen Symposium. The Internet Forum seeks to understand how the Internet and new learning media can improve the quality and condition of learning, as well as the opportunities […]

Westchester Colleges Tapping into Online Learning

More than 30 years ago, Iona College in New Rochelle inaugurated what it called “distance learning,” using videotaped classes based on a public broadcasting educationai series and other media of the day to provide a college education to offcampus students. Today, most of Iona’s distance learning is by the Internet, which has even become an […]

If Higher Education Listened to Me . . .

Technology has had a profound impact not only on colleges and universities but also on college and university students.Read the Full Story