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New online course eases students’ concerns

BATON ROUGE – Like most community college students, Loretta Lee-Thomas of Cade wants to ensure the courses she’s taking will count toward a degree when she transfers to a four-year university.Read the Full Article

Online Course Examines Sept. 11 Attacks

MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — Students and alumni from Vermont’s Middlebury College are studying the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks online.Read the Full Article

College online learning programs falter

It seems there might be a second burst in the dot-com bubble.Read the Full Article

Tech center to boost distance learning

The Chuck Yim Gee Technology Learning Center consists of an executive video conference suite, a multimedia computer laboratory with Smart board technology and a multimedia classroom. The center is part of the Travel Industry Management School in George Hall. Read the Full Article

Distance-Learning Students Explore Data Interoperability with Intergraph’s GeoMedia Software

In a related move, Intergraph and UNIGIS have begun efforts to develop teaching materials based on Intergraph technology. UNIGIS is an international consortium of distance learning that is comprised of universities with a standard GIS curriculum. Read the Full Article

European Distance Education Network: Models of Technology and Change In Higher Education

The aim of the study is to investigate which scenarios are emerging with respect to the use of ICT in higher education and how future developments can be predicted and strategic choices can be based on that. It applies an international comparative methodology and is carried out in the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, the United Kingdom, […]

Cross-channel university to open

The “Transmanche University” will be jointly funded by education departments in France and the United Kingdom, as part of a £1.4m education accord signed on Tuesday. Read the Full Article

Examining Online Add/Drop

Cornell Information Technologies (CIT) and the office of the Registrar have finally given students the ability to directly alter their schedules by developing an online add/drop protocal. Though the online system has its drawbacks, the University has done students a service in finally implementing the program.Read the Full Article

E-Learning for Developing Countries is Focus of MIT Workshop

In addition to senior MIT faculty and policy makers from USAID, the World Bank, corporations and foundations, the following countries will be represented: Algeria, Armenia, Canada, France, Hong Kong, Japan, India, Ireland, Iran, Israel, Kenya, Mexico, Niger, Pakistan, Russia, Syria and the United Arab Emirates. Professor Richard Larson, Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT and […]

On the Web, It’s Easy to Earn Straight A’s

Want a Harvard diploma? How about a University of Virginia transcript? Read the Full Article