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WebCT announces two major new customers

LYNNFIELD, Mass, Nov. 3, 2003 – WebCT, maker of the world’s most flexible and widely used higher education e-learning solutions, today bolstered its position as the leading supplier of e-learning systems to higher education consortia with the addition of two new customers in the United States and Europe.The Swiss Virtual Campus and the Appalachian College […]

Distance education on CDs and multimedia

The Department of Distance Education has given students the option to get recorded lectures on the subject. Not just this, from the next session, the department would come out with CDs on all subjects.Read the Full Story

President installed as ZOU [Zimbabwe Open University] Chancellor

Previously, ZOU students have graduated in conjunction with those from the University of Zimbabwe.Read the Full Story

Differences Between Traditional and Distance Education Academic Performances: A Meta-Analytic Approach

Eighty-six experimental and quasi-experimental studies met the established inclusion criteria for the meta-analysis (including data from over 15,000 participating students), and provided effect sizes, clearly demonstrating that: (1) in two thirds of the cases, students taking courses by distance education outperformed their student counterparts enrolled in traditionally instructed courses; (2) the overall effect size d+ […]

The Sustainability of Distance Training: Follow-up to Case Studies

An organization must create a solid link between its training function and its business or strategic planning goals to sustain a high-quality, cost-effective distance training program.Read the Full Story

Interactive University Announces £6 Million Singapore Deal

The deal was warmly welcomed by Deputy First Minister, Jim Wallace who was also in Singapore to open the new office of Scottish Development International.Nanyang Institute of Management is Singapore’s leading provider of private education. The new agreement with Interactive University (IU) will enable a potential 1,500 students from Singapore to study for Scottish under-graduate […]

Distance education increases in popularity, prevalence

These courses at the University of Wisconsin System have become more popular, Roger Maclean, UW associate dean in the Division of Continuing Studies said.Read the Full Story

Creating a Virtual Community with PT3: College of Education Students’ Beliefs, Expectations and Attitudes toward Online Learning

Pre-service teachers have been engaged in the process of learning with and about technology. The main purpose of this study is to describe and analyze College of Education students’ beliefs, expectations, and attitudes toward online learning. This is a qualitative ongoing case study. Through purposive sampling techniques, twenty one students from six different online graduate […]

Towards A Research Model for Distance Education—Contributions From The Telecommuting Literature

The aim of the paper is to put forward a possible research model for the evaluation of distance education.Read the Full Story

AS [Associated Students] board plans to post evaluations online

Maya Tomlin, Associated Students vice president for academic affairs, said she is exploring the idea of posting course evaluations online, allowing students to research professors before entering their classes.Read the Full Story