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A few years ago, Linda Dunlap of Marist College in New York was similarly skeptical about the possibility of teaching her discipline online. “How could one possibly teach social psychology, or most psychology courses online? It just didn’t seem logical,” Dunlap recalls. She thinks of psychology “as a very people-oriented field – the study of […]
And word is spreading.Courtenay White, a UND continuing education program manager, said when UND first launched its distance learning engineering degree program in 1989, it struggled to attract a dozen students.Read the Full Story
SUNY officials said Thursday the first-of-its-kind program will be created through the assistance of a $300,000 grant awarded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. UB will work in partnership with Stony Brook University and Binghamton University on the program.Read the Full Story
The first of University College’s online degrees are being converted to the eCollege System to launch at the start of the summer quarter.Read the Full Story
There are two primary avenues for this type of feedback: interactions with online instructors and computer-based feedback automatically generated by online assessment programs.Read the Full Story
Cornell University is one of the premier educational and research institutions in the world. As such, the Ivy League school is known far and wide; but eCornell, the university’s wholly-owned subsidiary, hasn’t received much publicity, despite the ways in which it is laying the foundation for a new paradigm of e-learning.Read the Full Story
Engaging People in Cyberinfrastructure (EPIC) is a national alliance of K-12 teachers, university researchers, tool builders and leaders of diversity-focused organizations that will collaborate on projects aimed at increasing the diversity and number of people applying cyberinfrastructure to their research and educational needs.Read the Full Story
Recently, the College received its second $100,000 grant from the Bernard Osher Foundation earmarked exclusively for continuing education programs designed for individuals 50 years of age and better.Read the Full Story
Tom Taylor, currently assistant provost for enrollment at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County — known as UMBC — will assume the post August 1. The new position has responsibility for the university’s admissions, scholarships and financial aid, registrar, student records, marketing, and communications functions.Read the Full Story
Prior to the 1960s, the college student’s role was that of a client, seeking the expertise and knowledge of the faculty, says Dr. Roger L. Geiger, Distinguished Professor of Higher Education. But during the 1960s and 1970s, the situation began to change perceptibly when student activists and certain administrators made significant changes to their college’s […]