Wallin, Bates to Receive Honorary Doctorates from Athabasca University
On Friday, June 11, Bates will receive an Honorary Doctor of Athabasca University . Wallin will accept an Honorary Doctor of Letters on Saturday, June 12. Read the Full Story
Archive for the ‘Higher Education’ Category
A $450,000 grant to create a national online training program in crop biosecurity
The training will be geared for first detectors – those people most likely to notice a problem first, such as crop advisors and county Extension agents. Read the Full Story
Degrees of separation
For the rest of the semester Ian was the only member of his marketing class ever to post questions to the website and communicate online with the lecturer. Read the Full Story
Colleges offer Internet courses
That’s no problem for Jackson since she lives in Japan. It’s also no problem taking a course from ACU, either. There’s no long commute involved — just the click of a mouse. Read the Full Story
Hefce pulls the plug on UK e-university
The funding council Hefce is holding “immediate talks” with the e-University – known as UKeU – on restructuring its activities and services. This could lead to the break-up of the venture launched in 2000 at the height of the dotcom boom by the then education secretary, David Blunkett, as a worldwide 21st century successor to […]
UT Telecampus Newsletter
• New UTTC Website• TRACK• UTTC Spring 2004 Enrollment• New Program Information Updated• Spring 2004 Courses and Activities• UTTC Digital Library News• Spring 2004 Pre-Course Survey Results• Blackboard News• WebBoard• Embanet Read the Newsletter
Athabasca University recognized by ICDE for its contributions to open and distance learning
At its 21 st World Conference in Hong Kong, Feb. 18-21, ICDE awarded Athabasca University one of two Institutional Prizes for Excellence. Read the Full Story
PsychLab On-Line: Virtual Experiments for Psychology Students
Hay has created interactive movies that simulate classical and operant conditioning experiments, as well as split-brain syndrome experimentation. Find out more about how to use his resource. Read the Full Story
Miller to be honored by continuing education hall of fame
Created in 1995, the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame is a nonprofit corporation whose purpose is to honor individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the fields of continuing education and adult learning. Read the Full Story
Faculty Development and Learning Object Technology:
It then takes a look at faculty perspectives, to show that moving from the traditional approach in content creation to developing learning objects requires a paradigm shift for faculty content developers. Read the Full Story