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eCollege Continues to Solidify Partnerships with Leading Publishers DENVER – March 4, 2003 – eCollege(SM) [Nasdaq: ECLG], a leading provider of technology and services for online higher education programs, today announced a partnership with Houghton Mifflin, one of the leading educational publishers in the United States. The partnership provides eCollege’s customers access to Houghton Mifflin’s […]
The letter, sent to the 1,700 high school students who submitted early-decision applications, included nearly 550 who had already been rejected in December and early January. Read the Full Article
Given the cost of content, the under-resourcing of universities and the scattered nature of expertise in Africa, the collaborative development of open content seems like a useful way to get high-quality, locally-relevant content for using to enhance teaching-and-learning.Read the Full Article
Stephen E. Maizlish has been teaching history at the University of Texas at Arlington for 25 years. A tenured associate professor, he has edited and written works on antebellum politics and slavery.Read the Full Article
It’s only fitting, then, that general psychology courses parallel the brain’s complexity, argues Gary L. Bradshaw, an associate professor of psychology at Mississippi State University. Read the Full Article
In which it is demonstrated that the automated assembly of certain types of learning objects is not possible Read the Full Article
On the surface, the benefits of a stronger technological presence – blackboard, power point, online courses, etc. – seem quite reasonable.Read the Full Article
On July 15-16, 1999, a group of 20 higher education leaders gathered in Roanoke, Virginia to participate in an invitational symposium on the topic of “Redesigning More Productive Learning Environments.” This was the first of the recently created Pew Symposia in Learning and Technology, whose purpose is to conduct an ongoing national conversation about issues […]
In addition, three new programs: the Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (BAIS), the Master of Arts in Mathematics Education (MAME) and the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) were reviewed and approved for inclusion under the accreditation of the University. As a result of the actions taken by IRAC, WGU’s accreditation was approved by […]
Abstract Recent literature on online learning gives credence to the difficulty inherent in understanding the sense of online community. Quantitative studies especially have concluded with calls for deeper, more intensive explorations into what really happens in online learning environments. In this article the results of an interpretive study conducted among adult learners engaged in online […]