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Online University Consortium Releases Learner Assessment Tool

Salt Lake City, Utah – The Online University Consortium, the nation’s largest network of top name universities, today announced its new Web-based assessment tool for prospective students considering online degree programs. The Online Learner Assessment helps students determine their aptitude for online education in order to choose the best solution for their individual learning style. […]

New Director – Meet IVC’s [Illinois Virtual University] new Director – Iris Stovall

Iris comes to the IVC from the Illinois Online Network (ION), where she held the position of Director.Read the Full Story

Position Announcement: Online Learning Corporate Sales

The successful candidate will make arrangements with corporate training officers and human resources personnel to offer WebCampus online courses to corporate employees worldwide. WebCampus.Stevens catalog now offers more than 160 online courses in four online master’s degrees and 22 graduate and 4 continuing education programs. Knowledge of the corporate training or human resources marketplace is […]

Monitoring Student Performance in Online Courses: New Game—New Rules

This imposes challenges for a virtual instructor trying to monitor and assess online students’ progress and gain some assurances of satisfactory completion of knowledge transfer. This article presents the experience of a virtual instructor with adult students completing a health and safety course entitled Lockout. Three typical cases are presented whereby the instructor must evaluate […]

MVU [Michigan Virtual University] to Create Tech Project for Flint Neighborhoods

The one-year grant was awarded to the Michigan Virtual University to organize a pilot school improvement technology project for 700 students and their parents residing in Flint housing projects where schools are not making “adequate yearly progress” under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.Read the Full Story

Quality, Affordability, and Access: Americans Speak on Higher Education

the public wants the ladder of access to higher education lowered, however, offering young people from all backgrounds a chance to go to college, providing financial help, and ensuring that high school graduates are prepared for the academic challenges of higher education.Read the Full Story

You’ll never get lost on WGU campus

Office staff walk briskly and quietly through the halls of the WGU administration building, which, by point of fact, is the school’s only building.Read the Full Story

Grant Awarded to Evaluate Effectiveness of EHealth Technologies

As part of this grant, Harborview Medical Center faculty from the University of Washington School of Medicine, will be involved in a study titled, “Randomized Controlled Trial of Diabetes Disease Management Over the Internet.” Read the Full Story

Online classes paying the way

Instead, Zahler paid extra for online and evening courses that don’t depend on the Legislature for funding.Read the Full Story

GeoLearning & Harvard Business School Publishing Announce Strategic Partnership

GeoLearning, Inc., the leading Application Service Provider (ASP) of learning management systems and e-learning content, announced today a strategic partnership with Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP). Under the terms of the agreement, GeoLearning will resell and host HBSP’s e-learning programs, which include Leadership Transitions and the Harvard ManageMentor® PLUS desktop reference tool, as part of […]