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A new approach to higher education is sweeping across the nation. Faculty and students are embracing online learning in large and rapidly increasing numbers. Online learning is a computer mediated approach to teaching and learning. It can involve text placed in a Web site, email, chat rooms, bulletin boards, streaming video, etc. Some of these […]
PRWEB) February 8, 2004–College distance learning programs increased their revenues by a mean of 9.67% in 2003, according to a new survey published by Primary Research Group, “The Survey of Distance & Cyberlearning Programs in Higher Education, 2004 Edition” (ISBN# 1-57440-066-5). Growth was slightly faster among 4-year than 2-year colleges. Private colleges increased revenues by […]
The grant will be used to build and equip a room walled with projection screens to create the illusion of an immersive, three-dimensional environment. The facility, which is expected to be operating by mid-2004, has provisionally been named the Keck Center for Active Visualization in Earth Sciences.Read the Full Story
Gianetti said Spring Arbor has about 1,200 online students who are among a total of 3,500 students enrolled at 14 sites throughout lower Michigan. Read the Full Story
These armchair scholars count time as their most valuable asset, and they don’t want to spend it sitting in a classroom or in a car driving to a far-off university. Read the Full Story
From the early days of correspondence courses to the “colleges without walls” movement of the 1970s and 1980s, community college educators have demonstrated a commitment to extending the reach of education in their continuing efforts to make a difference for students and communities.Read the Full Story
Not to be confused with the College of Business’ Compass career services, Illinois Compass has just gone into testing in approximately 40 courses with about 3,500 students, said Lanny Arvan, CITES assistant CIO of Educational Technologies.Read the Full Story
ThickEnvelope.com offers an $80 test to calculate a student’s chances of admission to 80 top universities, ranging from Harvard and the University of California-Berkley to the University of Wisconsin. Critics have said the new site, like many others that charge for this service, is a scam to profit from the anxiety of high-school students and […]
AcknowledgmentsThis book is designed to accompany the online course “Developing an Effective Online Course” http://www.roundworldmedia.com/cvcCreditsThe online course was developed for the Bay Area California Virtual Campus Center, under thedirection and vision of Martha Mills. The course was written and developed by Valerie Landauwith collaboration and input from a team of outstanding educational technologists:Francine Van Meter, […]
With funding from Human Resources Development Canada’s Office of Learning and Technology, chemistry professor Dr. Dietmar Kennepohl and physics professor Dr. Martin Connors from Athabasca University, along with Dr. Ron Currie, Jit Baran, and Kieron Quigley from Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT), have created the Canadian Remote Sciences Laboratories portal site, a learning environment […]