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The Knowledge Medium: Designing Effective Computer-Based Learning Environments

Dr. Berg has developed many distance learning format courses and programs, been interviewed for numerous national publications, and consulted for educational and government organizations on the use of distance learning. The Idea Group conducted an interview with him regarding the use of technology in education. Read the Full Story

Ignou becomes world’s largest open university

The two-day global summit was jointly sponsored by Unesco and organised by China ‘s National Commission of Unesco, China Central Radio and Television University, Shanghai Distance Education Group and Shanghai Television University .Read the Full Story

Taming Tuition Hikes

Such spectacular rises are part of an unfortunate, long-term national trend. From 1990 to 2000, tuition at the average four-year private college nearly doubled, going from $10,348 to $19,312. During that same period, state universities imposed an 85 percent increase on their students.Read the Full Story

Five Truths About Tuition

Can anything besides an act of God stop the rise of college tuition? … For the last several months on Capitol Hill, the higher-education establishment has been on the defensive over the question — and at times things have gotten very testy.Read the Full Story

Yale links with China’s Fudan University in distance learning, biomedical research

The Fudan-Yale Center for Education Cooperation will host lectures by renowned scholars and arrange exchanges of teachers and students from the two schools, Xinhua said.Read the Full Story

Learning from Reflections – Issues in Building Quality Online Courses

This article supports that position with reflections of an adjunct professor, who implemented a doctoral level course, Instruction Delivery Systems, during 2001 at Nova Southeastern University that had been authored by another professor in the School of Computer and Information Sciences. It contains student reflections on their experiences developing and implementing online mini-courses, which was […]

Students using the net to cheat

For the past three years, she says, she has been submitting essays bought and copied from the internet and passing them off as her own.Read the Full Story

Where Technology and Course Development Meet

Ideally, such programs will result in online courses that are well-designed, responsive to the learner, interactive, and consistent with stated instructional goals.Read the Full Story

National Technological University to Mark 20th Anniversary

As National Technological University (NTU) prepares to mark its 20th anniversary, the nation’s first accredited “virtual” university is as bold and visionary today as it was when it pioneered the delivery of master’s level engineering courses via satellite in 1984.Read the Full Story

CTU [Colorado Technical University] Online Introduces First Bachelor Degree Programs

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nov. 11, 2003–Continuing CEC Online Education Group’s tradition of pioneering distance learning, Colorado Technical University Online (CTU Online) has launched its first Bachelor’s degree programs, including a new School of Management and School of Information Technology. Read the Full Story