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Commission to focus on distance learning

The Commission opened an investigation Tuesday into distance learning following contact from school superintendents, principals, and students with concerns about the system currently in place to provide educational opportunities across the state. Read the Full Article

Cuyahoga Community College Continues Strong Enrollment Growth, Spring Enrollment up 6.8% to 23,854

CLEVELAND, Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ — Cuyahoga Community College, Ohio’s first and largest community college, today announced that according to official 15th day enrollment figures, the number of students taking spring semester classes is continuing to rise. Read the Full Article

Network lauded as tech boon

Vigorous distance learning applications. Joint research performed online among the state’s major universities. Remote robotic surgery. Read the Full Article

UK colleges open doors online

UK e-Universities Worldwide (UKeU) is a joint initiative between the UK Government, 12 universities and private industry. The company has £62m of funding from the government and has created a set of online courses for students around the globe. Read the Full Article

Off-campus branches to split

“Because of the number of students we’re serving and the number of classes we have, it has become a very successful enterprise and it was time for us to separate the Continuing Education and the Extended University,” said Jerónimo Domínguez, vice provost for Extended University. Read the Full Article

Dartmouth website goal: Access for all

February 5, 2003. When the Dean of the College’s Office began evaluating its web communications with students last year, it uncovered an issue that was new to most people in the division. Read the Full Article

University of the Arctic Goes Online

Twenty-five students at eight sites around the circumpolar North are now enrolled in the online version of the course. Additionally, a second group of 15 students is taking the course in a traditional classroom setting at the University of Northern British Columbia, in Prince George. A second course in the Contemporary Issues unit will be […]

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Web-Loving Students Can Be Prodded to Cite Peer-Reviewed Works in Term Papers, Study Suggests

But the professor who teaches the course reversed the trend by providing a few clear guidelines in term-paper assignments. Read the Full Article

Russian university leaders get lessons at UMass

“We need to have world goals for education,” said David K. Scott, a physicist who was UMass chancellor from 1993 to 2001. Read the Full Article