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Distance learning: University of Maryland University College has gone the distance in its approach to distance learning.

Enrollment figures for the fall 2003 semester — the latest available — include about 57,500 U.S. military members and their dependents. Read the Full Story

The Ecological Approach to the Design of E-Learning Environments: Purpose-based Capture and Use of Information About Learners

In this paper I argue that even more important than semantics is pragmatics; that is, to really enhance web usability it is critical to capture and react to aspects of the end use context. Read the Full Story

Online education becoming more legitimate

These days, there are other options.Read the Full Story

CSULB [California State University Long Beach] Offers Degree Program Online

This month, CSULB begins offering courses online for those seeking a Master of Science degree in engineering management (MSEM). While the university has had courses here and there for different degrees online for several years now, it has not offered an entire degree program online. The MSEM will be the first and it could mean […]

Thwarted Innovation: A major new study from the University of Pennsylvania answers the question: “Why did the boom in e-learning go bust?”

Access The Learning Alliance Website to download the report (124 kb – PDF)

American Public University System Professors: Distance Learning Is Critical in Emergency, Disaster Management College Programs

The recommendations were made at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Emergency Management Institute’s Higher Education Project conference (http://www.training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/edu/ ). The conference drew higher education professionals from institutions offering (or hoping to offer) degrees in emergency and disaster management.Read the Full Story

The Educational Semantic Web: Visioning and Practicing the Future of Education

The Semantic Web is a long-range development that is being built in stages by groups of re s e a rchers, developers, scientists and engineers around the world through a process of specification and prototype instantiating these intero perable specifications.Read the Full Story

Q&A with UCSC’s acting Chancellor Martin Chemers

As campus officials consider a long-range plan for the next 15 years — when the number of college-going students statewide is still increasing — they are caught in the middle between legislators, environmentalists and neighbors. Read the Full Story

Distance Learning College is Founding Partner of Sister Cities Youth Network

The College’s $50,000 donation over three years will help sister city members sustain and develop their youth and education projects by creating new programs.Read the Full Story

Distance Education Strategy: Mental Models and Strategic Choices

Two propositions are investigated: (1) each college’s DE leaders use common strategic mental models (ways of thinking about key environmental issues and relationships), and (2) DE leaders from the three colleges employ common industry-level strategic mental models. The major findings are: (1) strategic beliefs are more varied than expected; (2) strategic choices address common DE […]