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The state Commission on Higher Education last week considered UOP’s application to offer six undergraduate business degrees from rented classrooms in Jersey City, but deferred a decision until Sept. 26 amid lingering questions about the university’s library, location and number of teaching hours, said Jeanne Oswald, the commission’s deputy executive director.Read the Full Article
Currently Saba is Professor of Educational Technology at San Diego State University (1984-present), where he teaches courses on distance education, and cyberculture. He is also the founder of Distance-Educator.com, which is a popular online news and information resource for distance education practitioners.Read the Full Article
In news over the past 5 – 10 years we have witnessed stories of social deviants who have taken on roles of nurturing individuals in order to lure youth into misdirected acts. But do we even consider individuals may take on different personas in on-line learning environments? Read the Full Article
In the Pew Learning and Technology Study “Innovations in Online Learning” authored by Carol Twigg (2001) the issue of no significant difference and equivalent learning outcomes is commingled with the idea of whether distance education is as good as, better, or worse than traditional face-to-face instruction. Read the Full Article
If teaching is structured to afford students responsible, creative and meaningful dialog with educators distance decreases.Read the Full Article
A Washington, D.C.-based university-to-business alliance that provides access to universities with reputable online degree programs, the consortium allows public universities to compete with the larger for-profit universities that offer online education, said Ken Bettenhausen, associate dean of UCD’s business school. Read the Full Article
While its growing popularity is primarily due to the flexible scheduling available through on-line programs, students also appreciate being able to attend class in a bathrobe if they choose. But fuzzy slippers aside, is distance education a smart choice for every student?Read the Full Article
The paper explores some general pedagogical principles and outlines a pedagogy that takes the next step in redefining the social space of learning enabling educators to leverage the capabilities of the new communicative media as well as enhance and expand current models of E-learning beyond traditional models. This pedagogy is then demonstrated in a number […]
Information on school enrollment and the work activity of high school graduates comes from an October supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS). The CPS is a monthly nationwide survey of about 60,000 households that obtains information on employment, unemployment, earnings, demographics, and other characteristics of the civilian noninstitutional population age 16 and over. Recent […]
Now she flies to Greece several times a year to help manage a Carnegie Mellon University partnership in Athens where students, plugged in electronically to CMU’s Oakland campus, are earning master’s degrees in information networking. Read the Full Article