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Drexel University Launches Podcast Series to Help Students Succeed in Earning an Online Degree

Drexel University, Philadelphia’s leading technological university, introduces Drexel’s eLearning Minute, a series of brief podcasts designed to address the unique issues and circumstances that new online students encounter and to offer advice on successfully earning a degree online.Read the Full Story

LSU offers college, HS students free correspondence courses

BATON ROUGE, La. College and high school students displaced by Hurricane Katrina can get free correspondence courses through L-S-U.Read the Full Story

American Public University System Offers 2,500 Scholarships to Students Affected By Hurricane Katrina

Distance Learning Institution Reaches Out to Students From Colleges in Hurricane’s Path Read the Full Story

Boeing selects Stevens for graduate online learning

HOBOKEN , N.J. — The Boeing Company, the world’s largest aerospace company and the second largest manufacturer of commercial aircraft, has selected WebCampus, the online unit of Stevens Institute of Technology, as a preferred provider for online graduate education for its nearly 160,000 employees worldwide.Read the Full Story

Intel selects Stevens for graduate online learning

HOBOKEN , N.J. — Intel Corporation, the world’s largest computer chip maker and a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products, has selected WebCampus, the online unit of Stevens Institute of Technology, as a preferred provider for online graduate education for its 85,000 employees worldwide.Read the Full Story

MBA University Goes Mobile

Arab Open University of Bahrain has included Learning Mobile Author development toolkits in classrooms and research departments to pioneer the creation of an open source mobile content library.

Distance learning faces a hard lesson in economics

The Open University will be seriously damaged by the tuition fee regime and may not be able to maintain its pre-eminent position in e-learning, the vice-chancellor has warned.Read the Full Story

OU [The Open University] considers shortage subjects lifeline

The Open University (OU) is in talks with the government’s higher education funding body about how it can fill the gap created where other universities have culled courses, it has emerged.Read the Full Story

American Public University System’s First Homeland Security, Emergency Response Colloquia Set for May 2006

ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 12 /PRNewswire/ — ASIS International Annual Seminar — American Public University System has issued a call for papers for its first international gathering of homeland security and emergency response leaders and practitioners. The deadline for papers has been extended to Jan. 15, 2006, due to Hurricane Katrina and its demands on the […]

Penn State Outreach promotes access and engagement through technology

University Park, Pa. — Evolving technology and the relocation of several Outreach units into the new Outreach Building are creating exciting opportunities for collaboration and innovation across the University, Vice President for Outreach Craig Weidemann reported to the Board of Trustees today (Sept. 9).Read the Full Story