BYU embracing technology, Internet in ‘hybrid’ classes
Not if he’s teaching a “hybrid” course, a new model of survival for colleges and universities seeking ways to use technology. Read The Full Article
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Colleges Tighten Belts as Student Enrollments Rise
In the last five years enrollment at the college has increased by approximately 36 percent, resulting in the college’s having to limit course offerings available to students. Read The Full Article
Students Complain About Devices for Reading E-Books, Study Finds
The researchers hoped to find out how using e-books compared with using textbooks, and how e-book use affected students’ learning.
OU-Tulsa consolidates onto one campus
“This is the first time all OU programs (in Tulsa) have been under one very big roof,” said Tracy Kennedy, OU-Tulsa director of university relations. Read The Full Article
ENMU receives high marks for nursing program
The commission based their endorsement on the school’s commitment of faculty to the nursing program and distance education programs offered by the department. Read The Full Article
Intercultural Challenges in Networked Learning: Hard Technologies Meet Soft Skills
The goals were to test assumptions that electronic communication is internationally standardized, to identify any problematic aspects of such communications, and to construct a framework for the analysis of electronic communications using constructs from intercultural communications theory. Read The Full Article
UCLA Awarded $2 Million Grant From Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Fred Eiserling — UCLA dean of life sciences, professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, and director of UCLA’s Undergraduate Biological Sciences Education Program — said the grant will enable UCLA to expand outreach programs that improve the science preparation of students in urban public schools, expand programs for undergraduates who are preparing to become science […]
UC Berkeley’s first entirely online course could lead way to more classes without a classroom
“Gems and Gem Materials,” an undergraduate class being taught this fall by Jill Banfield, a professor of earth and planetary sciences, is getting a trial run as cautious faculty members wait to hear what students think. Read The Full Article
Distance-Education Alliance Backed by Oxford, Stanford, and Yale Will Offer Courses to the Public
The company, until now known as the Alliance for Lifelong Learning, will also dump its unwieldy name for a more marketable one: AllLearn. Read The Full Article
NYIT Culinary Arts Center Brings Distance Learning to the Classroom Kitchen
(New York)–Distance learning initiatives at NYIT have moved the teaching of culinary arts education from the classroom kitchen to the video monitor. Now students can benefit from instruction and direct participation no matter where they’re located or where the content provider is situated. This program once again puts NYIT on the cutting edge of new […]