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Louisville, KY (PRWEB) May 29, 2005 — Dr. Denzil Edge, President/CEO of Learning House, Inc, and Dr. Helen Sullivan, Academic Dean of Arlington Baptist College, are excited to form a new partnership.Read the Full Story
This paper explores the potential of blogs as learning spaces for students in the higher education sector. It refers to the nascent literature on the subject, explores methods for using blogs for educational purposes in university courses (eg. Harvard Law School), and records the experience of the Brisbane Graduate School of Business at Queensland University […]
At Delaware State University, already tense relations between professors and the administration may implode over the issue.Read the Full Story
This is one example of emerging technologies featured at an E-Learning Institute today through Friday at Northern Arizona University. The institute discusses technologies, such as the tablet PCs, teaching with technology, assessment and an introduction to the new Web-based software at the university.Read the Full Story
“People today use major Web sites for everything from shopping to quickly finding solutions to everyday problems,” said Pete Rubba, senior director of the World Campus. “A Web site that offers an education should be just as accessible.” Rubba added that the Web site aims to better communicate the breadth of Penn State programs offered […]
The author suggests that structural critiques of educational technology ignore the considerable impact of human agency on shaping related learning outcomes. By combining Dewey’s constructivism with Internet technology, the article suggests student agency and participatory democratic learning are actually encouraged. Rather than condemning educational technology as necessarily socially reproductive, then, the author concludes that democratic […]
Participants included 131 graduate students in a College of Education. They were from 19 sections of five different online courses. In these courses, students took tests, found information, and participated in chat rooms, discussions, or emails with instructors.Read the Full Story
DENVER, May 20 /PRNewswire/ — Jones International University® (JIU®) (http://www.jonesinternational.edu/), which received the first accreditation in the United States of a completely virtual institution, has 2004-2005 graduates representing eight countries and more than 30 states across the U.S., living proof that it has taken the distance out of distance education.Read the Full Story
“I’m taking 12 credits and there’s no way I could do that face-to-face,” Mallory said, who takes classes via the Internet. “I can do school when the kids sleep.”Read the Full Story
“In Tamil Nadu, the central prison Coimbatore was the first one to house a study centre of IGNOU in 1999.Read the Full Story