County college breaks ground for Distance Learning Center
President Kenneth Ender said the construction will start in a couple of weeks, will be finished in early fall and will be ready for community use in January 2004.Read the Full Article
Archive for the ‘Higher Education’ Category
Five Obstacles to Technology Integration at a Small Liberal Arts University
However, recent statistics show that this is not the case. “Out of every 10 teachers in this country, fewer than two seriously are users of computers and other information technologies in their classrooms (several times a week); three to four are occasional users (about once a month); and the rest – four to five teachers […]
Building It So They Will Come: Assessing Universities’ Distance Education Faculty Training and Development Programs
Given the above, a survey of training and development specialists representing 14 landgrant institutions was conducted in order to explore how universities with active agricultural distance education programs are conducting distance education training and development programs for their faculty. Read the Full Article
Athabasca University, CMA Canada strategic alliance develops tomorrow’s global business leaders
Under the terms of a new strategic alliance, Athabasca University’s (AU) Centre for Innovative Management and Certified Management Accountants of Canada (CMA Canada) will work together to provide CMAs with enhanced access to AU’s Executive MBA programs.Read the Full Article
An Updated and Theoretical Rationale for Interaction
This debate is fueled by surface problems of definition and vested interests of professional educators but is more deeply marked by epistemological assumptions relative to the role of humans and human interaction in education and learning. Read the Full Article
CyberU Named a Visionary in Gartner’s 2003 “Magic Quadrants”
SANTA MONICA, California, March 19, 2003 – CyberU, Inc., the leading innovator of human capital management solutions, today announced that it was named as a visionary in three of Gartner’s 2003 “Magic Quadrant” reports*: E-Learning Suites, Learning Management Systems (LMS), and E-Learning Content. Published last month, these reports evaluated the performance of more than twenty […]
Usability of Hypermedia Educational e-Books
To arrive at relevant and reliable conclusions concerning the usability of a hypermedia educational e-book, developers have to apply a well-defined evaluation procedure as well as a set of clear, concrete and measurable quality criteria. Evaluating an educational tool involves not only testing the user interface but also the didactic method, the instructional materials and […]
The Oregon State University Inks Agreement To Develop, Market Education Courses
Funding for the initiative was provided through a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education, administered through the California Community Colleges chancellor’s office. Read the Full Article
College Media Group Cautions That 2 Copyright Laws Could Collide
At issue are the Technology Education and Copyright Harmonization Act and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Read the Full Article
DeVry University Standardizes Online Offerings on eCollege System(SM)
“One of DeVry’s advantages is we offer students the ability to seamlessly move across online and onsite delivery methods. The expanded relationship with eCollege facilitates this unique approach to education,” said Daniel Hamburger, executive vice president of DeVry, Inc. Hamburger continued, “After a thorough side-by-side comparison of the major eLearning providers, we concluded eCollege best […]