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Years ago, AOL Instant Messenger revolutionized communication and procrastination for students across the nation. But now, even administrators working from within Yale’s gothic towers are beginning to recognize the technology’s convenience. Read the Full Article
That’s the conclusion reached by all speakers at a lecture held by the Open University Business School, Europe’s largest business school, on April 8 in Brussels. The lecture, e-business in e-Europe: is small beautiful? was attended by a mix of more than 50 practitioners, guests, OUBS MBA alumni and students. The panel of speakers also […]
The BSc (Hons) in Computing is at the heart of an overhauled suite of computing courses that will completely renew core courses and introduce seven new courses over the next three years. The introduction of the new courses will be a timely one. As the importance of continuing professional development strengthens across the sector, students […]
Analogies between Web links and citations have been used in information retrieval to improve search engine query matching and in information science to develop link metrics for academic and other Web spaces. The purpose of this paper is to begin a fine-grained process of differentiating between creation motivations for links in academic Web sites and […]
But is a distance degree as good as an old-fashioned residential graduate degree? Two independent research studies have compared distance learning MBA students to their residential peers. Both studies have found more similarities than differences between groups in learner satisfaction and educational outcomes. Researchers at Colorado State’s AACSB-accredited business school compared distance students to their […]
KCC has stepped up development of online courses and the college will eventually offer complete associate degrees online. Read the Full Article
Chair Mark Frasier introduced Suzanna Spears, dean of arts and sciences and instructional development, who said distance learning meets a need for the smaller high schools, “Parents recognize the value of students starting their college career while in high school.” Read the Full Article
The day was Mar. 20, the time 4 a.m., and DePaul University marketing professor Roger Baran’s MBA class was nowhere to be found. Chicago-based Baran double-checked his clock. Read the Full Article
This article presents an overview of the instructional models of Gagne, Briggs, and Wager (1992) and Laurillard (1993, 2002), followed by student evaluations from the first year of an online public health core curriculum. Both online courses and their evaluations were developed in accordance with the two models of instruction. Read the Full Article
The project, named Avicenna Virtual Campus (after the Latin name for the medieval Persian philosopher-scientist, Ibn Sina), has attracted €3.7 million in funding from the European Commission’s EUMEDIS (Euro-Mediterranean Information Society) programme and €920,000 from partners including UNESCO, which is the project’s principal co-ordinator. Read the Full Article