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Calhoun awarded $1.8 million grant

The school will receive $365,000 per year over a five-year period, beginning Oct. 1. Funding from the grant will be used to increase student success at the college through academics and student services. Read the Full Story

Free 24/7 Tutoring Now Available for American Public University System’s Distance Learning Students

CHARLES TOWN, W.Va., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ — American Public University System students — currently 11,000 distance learners around the world — will soon each have access to 10 free hours of tutoring from a 24-hour online tutoring center. Read the Full Story

Distance Learning Makes Speech Therapy Studies

Commencing fall semester 2005, HSU students will be able to major in speech/language pathology and earn a bachelor of arts degree from CSU Fresno’s Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Studies.Read the Full Story

A historical – and personal – overview of the evolution of DE

Therefore, it seems appropriate to close the second volume with a retrospective editorial – not retrospective over the two years of the journal’s existence, but retrospective over the whole period of growth and maturity of the field.Read the Full Story

The School of Pharmacy at Campbell University Expands the Teaching Sphere with Simulcast from Research Triangle Park

The official broadcast began at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday night, August 24, 2004. Read the Full Story

Students choose logging on over listening to lectures

Deirdre Ward has nearly completed a master’s degree but after teaching third-graders all day at Taylors Creek Elementary School in Hinesville, going to college to finish her studies wasn’t always easy – until she found out about e-learning.Read the Full Story

Authentic Learner Assessment in an Online Environment

The findings of the study were used to build an authentic online assessment model that is effective in measuring learning, engaging the learner, integrating into the learning process, and promoting further learning.Read the Full Story

Ball State’s MBA program does brisk business

Ball State University, however, is bucking the trend.Read the Full Story

Video widens classroom

This semester, five registered nurses from Cincinnati will do most of their classwork and nearly all of their clinical work at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Edgewood, Ky., about 15 miles south of Cincinnati.Read the Full Story

Embedding online information resources in Virtual Learning Environments: some implications for lecturers and librarians of the move towards delivering teaching in the online environment

Data was collected through semi-structured interviews, and the interview results were then taken to a group of subject librarians and library managers for comment. Read the Full Story