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The Making the Virtual Classroom a Reality [MVCR] Faculty Development Courses – Registration Now Open

The Master Online Teacher Certificate is a comprehensive faculty development program based upon the MVCR series of online faculty development courses. This program recognizes and certifies faculty, staff, and administrators who have achieved a measurable level of knowledge related to online course design, online instruction, and other issues to online teaching and learning. The following […]

Computer-Mediated Communication: A Vehicle for Learning

This exploratory study examined the experiential communication perceptions of online doctoral students during the infancy of their program.Read the Full Story

Learning (and Teaching) in the Technological Age

Always eager for dialogue, he closed the three-page document with an invitation to respond. “Any thoughts to add to these will be warmly welcomed,” wrote the educational technology professor.Read the Full Story

Campus on a keyboard: Does online learning deprive students of important classroom experience?

For Sr. Airman Aaron Fisher, every day he and his fellow soldiers spent in post-Hussein Iraq required vigilance. But avoiding bullets and bombs wasn’t the only thing on Mr. Fisher’s mind. Some days he was also cramming for a math test. Read the Full Story

Yorkville University – Canada’s Newest University

Canada has long enjoyed a reputation for being a world leader in the development and delivery of quality university programs. However, much of the demand for online degree programs is currently being met by institutions primarily in the United States, England and Australia.Read the Full Story

Expanding Distance Learning Program Using Innovative Video System

The program was so successful that we wanted to extend the use of video to higher education students of all ages and in all locations—including those enrolled around the world in our growing distance learning program.Read the Full Story

Distance Learning Programs for Non-Traditional and Traditional Students in the Business Disciplines

The initial phases of course development, student feedback, and peer review began the authors’ transition into their current regular practice as virtual professors at graduate and undergraduate schools, while they continued to teach in traditional classrooms in their respective institutions. Read the Full Story

ASU [Arizona State University] launches online executive engineering masters degree

Engineering companies are among the world’s leading employers, and managing embedded systems development projects is mission-critical work for thousands of those companies.Read the Full Story

Engineering students’ portfolios go digital

Students who are working on their senior thesis, also known as the senior capstone design project, incorporate their efforts into the Capstone Project Electronic Portfolios (CPEP).Read the Full Story

“StevensViews Radio” debuts on World Wide Web

HOBOKEN, N.J. – A new discussion program debuted this week on the World Wide Web, produced at Stevens Institute of Technology.Read the Full Story