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The University of Notre Dame and Bisk Education to Offer New Online Business Negotiation Course

The University of Notre Dame’s Business Negotiation Master Certificate is the first to deliver a mastery of business negotiation disciplines from one of the top business schools in the country.Read the Full Story

Diary of a college freshman: now accessible online

For her humanities class, she was a little nervous about reading the “Epic of Gilgamesh” because she didn’t understand the book’s title. And, oh, she’s just a little peeved about the shortage of parking on campus.Read the Full Story

Online Discussions as a Tool for Learning: A Case Study of the Benefits of ICT Use in a First Year Teacher Education Context

It is told as a first person account of how a university educator, myself, studied a semester of online discussion. My aim was to assess the learning outcomes encouraged by such computer assisted interaction.Read the Full Story

Polytechnic University of the Philippines Open University: Championing open and distance learning

Then Philippine College of Commerce (now PUP) president Dr. Nemesio E. Prudente, set to put into practice the distance education program of the University.Read the Full Story

Computer plan is drawing fire

A newly formed university committee is due to report on the proposal by April 1, followed by a 15- to 25-day comment period, said Ed Kinley, ISU associate vice president with the Office of Information Technology.Read the Full Story

The Maryland Blend

The headlines in Maryland focused on the possibility of tuition surcharges for those who exceed certain numbers of credit hours. But the Board of Regents may have more influence with another policy it adopted for its 13 colleges, which collectively enroll nearly 130,000 students.Read the Full Story

Empty lecture halls in the online campus

No more, it seems. E-learning is as likely to stand for empty lecture theatres as for the internet revolution, which has greatly increased the volume and range of course materials available online in the past five years.Read the Full Story

Distance-Learning Law Grads Seek to Take Texas Bar Exam

State Rep. Robert Talton, a Pasadena Republican and an attorney, is sponsoring H.B. 826, which would require the Texas Supreme Court to adopt rules that would allow attorneys whose law degrees are based on study by correspondence to take the Texas exam, if they’ve passed another state’s bar exam and are licensed to practice law […]

TRANSITION TO TEACHING PROGRAM: Online university offering scholarships

At age 48, Marion Kovalenko is not your average college student.The mother of two balances her family life and her job as a teacher’s assistant at Petersen Elementary School, squeezing in study time at night via online courses. Read the Full Story

Dept. saves with online syllibi

The government and politics department has instituted a new policy that discourages professors from making photocopies of syllabi to give out to students and instead suggests professors post the syllabus on a website where students can go to print it out, in an attempt to save money and encourage professors to become more Internet savvy.Read […]