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USI [University of Southern Indiana] leads in long-distance learning

Valadares teaches health administration at the University of Southern Indiana. Online distance learning is allowing some of his students to keep up with the course via Web connections and video streaming on computers in their homes or other convenient places. Read the Full Story

Bridging Theory and Practice: Developing Guidelines to Facilitate the Design of Computer-based Learning Environments

This paper reviews the general constructivist theory that has guided the development of these environments, and offers suggestions for the adaptation of modest, generic guidelines, not mandated principles, that can be flexibly applied and allow for the expression of true constructivist ideals in online learning environments. Read the Full Story

Students, teachers discuss benefits of online learning program

She preferred her students to be physically there. But one advantage Keena discovered in the online class is that students who might otherwise be shy were now communicating with the other students and the instructor. Read the Full Story

Cadpo Announces Exclusive Training Partnership With Macomb Community College

Cadpo provides the MCAD/PLM industry standard in software neutral eLearning, training and engineering services. in Michigan. Cadpo provides the MCAD/PLM industry standard in software neutral eLearning, training and engineering services. Read the Full Story

Problems at e-learning university

One difficulty is that many UK universities have been offering their own online courses, bypassing UKeU. Read the Full Story

KVCC [Kalamazoo Valley Community College] to offer executive training

The 20-week, two-semester program begins March 8 and will mark only the fourth distance-learning site offered by the University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business for earning a certificate in executive management. Read the Full Story

Social Capital in Virtual Learning Communities and Distributed Communities of Practice

In particular, researchers in the social sciences and the humanities have used social capital to understand trust, shared understanding, reciprocal relationships, social network structures, common norms and cooperation, and the roles these entities play in various aspects of temporal communities. Despite proliferation of research in this area, little work has been done to extend this […]

Globalization is changing the higher education industry too

More than a half-million international students flock to U.S. colleges and universities. Yale University has drawn international students for many years and has arrangements with major universities throughout the world. Read the Full Story

The American College Names Exec Director for Online Learning

In his new post, Williams will be responsible for creating interactive Web-based learning experiences and for managing the editorial, production and instructional design department. Read the Full Story

The Effects of Peer-Controlled or Moderated Online Collaboration on Group Problem Solving and Related Attitudes

Thirty-five self-selected groups of four or five students were randomly assigned to the two conditions, which used the same online collaborative tool to solve twelve problem scenarios in an undergraduate statistics course. Read the Full Story