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Washington, D.C. – October 20, 2003 – Blackboard Inc., a leading enterprise software and services company for e-Education, has announced a partnership with the University of California College Prep Initiative (UCCP), a program delivering online courses, curriculum and support services for high school students across the State of California.UCCP, which was founded by the Regents […]
(St. Albert, AB) — Athabasca University’s (AU) Executive MBA is included on the prestigious list of the world’s top 75 EMBA programs by the Financial Times (FT) of London, England. Launched as the world’s first online MBA in 1994, the Athabasca University program is the only fully online Executive MBA to be included in this […]
“It’s impossible to overestimate the value of a partnership like this,” said Class.com CEO Katherine Endacott. “MVHS is in their fourth successful year of operation, and they have a proven record of accomplishment with a wide range of students in urban and rural districts throughout the state. We’re very proud to be a part of […]
Stevens Institute of Technology’s online university, WebCampus.Stevens, has won the nation’s top award for best “Institution-Wide Online Teaching and Learning Programming.” The award was announced Oct. 14th by the Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C), a prestigious group of learning institutions funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Read the Full Story
Kumcu will oversee the new Global Media Network, an interactive distance education system that allows students and faculty around the world to interact in real time for classes, seminars and meetings.Read the Full Story
“Live Assistance Reference Chat” and “Anywhere/Anytime Library” are two virtual services that streamline what learners were already doing, saving valuable time especially for nontraditional students with jobs, families and other responsibilities. Read the Full Story
Ball State’s weather station has been upgraded, adding an automated weather monitoring system that updates every five minutes.Read the Full Story
This article reviews the relevant literature on distance education and discusses differences between providing cyber-services and creating virtual communities for these students…. Read the Full Story
This longitudinal case study, presented at the Seventh Annual Sloan-C International Conference on ALN, examined the amount of time needed to teach three asynchronous online courses at The University of Michigan-Dearborn from Winter 1999 through Winter 2000.Read the Full Story
We provide a general description of how this model can be implemented via online means to provide the assessment information required by postsecondary institutions.Read the Full Story