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Collegis renews two higher education contracts for nearly $10 million

Maitland, Fla. – March 18, 2003 – Sul Ross State University (www.sulross.edu) in Alpine, Texas, and Mount St. Mary’s College (www.msmc.la.edu) in Los Angeles have decided to renew technology management agreements with Collegis, the leading provider of comprehensive technology services to higher education. SRSU, a public, regional university with locations in the Big Bend and […]

Ithaca College Switches to WebCT to Power Web-Based Learning

LYNNFIELD, MA — (INTERNET WIRE) — 03/17/2003 — Ithaca College, a private institution with an enrollment of 6,200 students in upstate New York, has selected the WebCT Campus Edition course management system as the foundation of its e-learning program going forward. Read the Full Article

An Interview with Farhad Saba, Founder of Distance-Educator.com

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

Moraine Park Technical College Achieves Record Online Courses and Enrollments

All Online Programs Converted to eCollege System(SM) in Just Four Weeks DENVER and FOND DU LAC, Wis. – March 17, 2003 – eCollege(SM) [Nasdaq: ECLG], a leading provider of technology and services for online higher education programs, and Moraine Park Technical College today announced record numbers of online courses and enrollments in Moraine Park’s online […]

Access and Choice

Access has four components, geographic access, legal access, academic access, and financial access. Providing geographic access was addressed in the 1960’s when hundreds of new colleges were built to educate the baby-boom generation. We have been addressing the other three for a number of years.Read the Full Report

ITFORUM Paper #68 Now Online: Understanding Participation in Online Courses: A Case Study of Perceptions of Online Interaction

This study examined instructor and learner perceptions and attitudes toward interaction in online courses on “engaged learning with technology” delivered to K12 inservice teachers. Participants included learners who were enrolled in an online course and a course instructor as well as other instructors who have expressed reluctance to teach online courses, participants who chose not […]

Europe’s Largest Business School Opens In Denmark

It is an immensely popular route to management development qualifications and the OUBS currently has more than 30,000 students studying courses across Europe and around the world – 6,500 of them taking the MBA. The MBA has received accreditation from both EQUIS and AMBA (the European Foundation of Management Development and the Association of MBAs). […]

Ball State U. Tests Interactive System for Answering Students’ Health Questions Online

Instead of asking a patient to describe a rash over the telephone, a nurse might ask the patient to look at his computer screen: Does the rash have oozing pustules, like the picture on the left? Or is it red and itchy, like the one on the right? Read the Full Article

Online campus calendar slated for fall debut

The gateway itself, formerly known as the “front door,” “will have a whole new look and feel” and will highlight a few events and provide a link to the full calendar, which can be searched by date or by keyword (e.g., “dance” or “hockey”), Sossen said. Because the dates for some events are known months […]

When is a Learning Object not an Object: A first step towards a theory of learning objects

For some, “learning objects1 “ are the “next big thing” in distance education promising smart learning environments, fantastic economies of scale, and the power to tap into expanding educational markets. While learning objects may be revolutionary in the long term, in the short term, definitional problems and conceptual confusion undermine our ability to understand and […]