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To help folks understand this important – and still controversial – branch of development policy, the University of Washington and the United Nations have joined forces to teach a distance learning course on microfinance. The course, Microfinance Principles and Practices, started this spring quarter, drawing enrollments from as far as Europe and Africa. It relies […]
The rapid increase in the use of computer technology to facilitate alternative forms of educational delivery, often called distance education (DE), represents a major change taking place in education. The potential for decoupling the traditional requirements that student and teacher be present in the same room at the same time has never been greater.Read the […]
A leading “virtual university” in the United States has been awarded for preaching what it practices. University of Maryland University College (UMUC), headquartered in Adelphi, Md., with a cyber reach that extends far beyond the nation’s capital or any of the university’s traditional classrooms in 29 countries, has been awarded for its Master of Distance […]
(East Valley) — One of the nation’s top 20 community college students is a dynamic Rio Salado (Tempe) scholar and aspiring economist who has never stepped foot inside a formal classroom in his life. Mesa resident Christopher Burton, 19, has taken his college courses primarily through e-learning while running two Internet-based businesses and serving as […]
FDU will extend a number of master’s level courses to area residents, including one or two in hospitality management and the “complete gamut” in public administration. These courses will be taught through distance learning over the Internet. Read the Full Article
As a college that turns out several hundred teachers every year, Pace has depended each fall on receiving free copies of Microsoft’s latest educational software, “so that the new teachers coming out would be familiar with the new titles,” says Sandra G. Flank, a professor of education.Read the Full Article
No difference in overall course performance was observed between students who did the simulations and those who did not. However, simulation students completed in-laboratory work in a shorter time frame and showed a slightly higher performance in the practical laboratory component. Read the Full Article
The majority of classrooms on campus are now equipped with advanced electronic equipment, a project that was started seven years ago, said Ike Jones, coordinator of space utilization. Read the Full Article
The goal of this project is to determine how the use of laptop computers and wireless connectivity can enhance the undergraduate academic experience in engineering.Read the Full Article
SimSon, a full-body mannequin with lifelike heartbeats and pulses, and realistic breath and body sounds, joins the more complex SimMan (Sam) in the school’s arsenal of teaching tools. SimMan is used in the nurse anesthetist program.Read the Full Article