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BOSTON, MA—November 6, 2003—UMassOnline, the University of Massachusetts’ web-based learning division, today announced that online education program revenues and enrollments grew 40 percent and 33 percent, respectively, in 2003. Revenues from the combined online programs at the University exceeded $11 million, up from $7.8 million in 2002, while enrollments reached 13,375, up from 10,039 in […]
He was a senior at a very selective private school, Saint Albans in Washington. He had a 1450 SAT score and an A-minus average. He was a musical star — chorus, glee club, madrigals, band, orchestra. And he had written what he thought was a good essay on his experience as a Boy Scout leader.Read […]
The presentation, titled “Transforming the Business of Academics,” will detail how portal technology enables universities to control costs while meeting the information and service demands of disparate audiences. Read the Full Story
November 3, 2003http://www.rdc.ab.caRed Deer College has been chosen as “Site of Week” by EDUCAUSE beginning the week of Monday, November 24, 2003. Visit EDUCAUSE for this profile during this week.EDUCAUSE is an organization made up of more than 1900 educational institutions worldwide, comprised mainly of universities. Red Deer College is one of the smaller institution […]
Colleges and universities selected as partners offer a variety of educational degree programs to Sailors. This year’s selections added one new institution and 10 new degree plans to the Partnership.Read the Full Story
The seminal article by Daniel and Marquis (1979) challenged distance educators to get the mixture right between independent study and interactive learning strategies and activities. They quite rightly pointed out that these two primary forms of education have differing economic, pedagogical, and social characteristics, and that we are unlikely to find a “perfect” mix that […]
The program is a unique partnership of four universities – Georgia Tech, Savannah State University, Armstrong Atlantic State University and Georgia Southern University – with classes taught live at one of the partner universities.Read the Full Story
These initiatives, according to sources in the education field, will enable higher-learning institutions to remain competitive as their demographics shift from mostly full-time students to more part-time students with jobs and families and professionals returning to school to train for new careers. Read the Full Story
Dr. Saba: How did you become interested in distance education? Dr. Gunawardena:My career in distance education evolved because of my interest in making alternative educational opportunities available for those who cannot attend a traditional university. This interest began from the time I entered the University in Sri Lanka to do my undergraduate degree. Developing countries […]
Saba’s chapter, “Distance Education Theory, Methodology, and Epistemology: A Pragmatic Paradigm,” was selected to lead the Handbook as it sets the tone for the rest of the volume. In this chapter, he presents the case for a paradigm of distance education that is uniquely American as it is grounded in the pragmatic school of philosophy, […]