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The online program, funded through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, will teach the nation’s county extension agents and crop advisers how to diagnose irregularities they find in field crops. Read the Full Story
Meanwhile, distance learning programs, some experts say, suffer when it comes to quality business degrees because nothing but live communication with colleagues in class can bring effective results. Read the Full Story
The courses, offered through the Wisconsin Advanced Placement Distance Learning Consortium at the UW-Madison, offer real-time classroom instruction in AP classes during regular school hours. Read the Full Story
The grant addresses four areas: preparedness planning and readiness assessment, technical support, health risk communication, and education and training. Read the Full Story
The site is a result of “Learning Objects in a Box,” a SchoolNet-funded project designed to study the feasibility of creating online courses using collected online learning objects. Read the Full Story
With four children and 10-hour workdays, LaWanda Robbins hardly sounds like a good college candidate. But the Sunrise resident just completed her associate’s degree at Keiser College and is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in business administration. Read the Full Story
Building upon the work of the Educational Technology Cooperative and the Electronic Campus, the Policy Laboratory seeks to reduce or eliminate existing or potential policy barriers to distance learning activities in three broad areas: access, quality, and cost. The Policy Laboratory’s main objectives are:… Read the Full Story
The college plans to replace the lecturers with lower-paid staff and use the money saved to invest in new technology. Read the Full Story
It is a very new field, and as a result, the Handbook itself is a work in progress. It identifies the key issues and offers guidance on what is currently known from the field. Much of what was presented in the first edition of this Handbook was drawn from one and one-half years of experimentation […]
Of the nearly 100 interns working in the White House this semester, 7 are from the roughly 240 students enrolled in the four-year-old Patrick Henry College, in Purcellville. Read the Full Story