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The Northern Territory University, in Darwin, is working with the aboriginal Yolngu people to study their language and culture, and also using the latest technology to teach courses about the Yolngu, who trace their history on the continent as far back as 40,000 years. Read the Full Article
The Island is also likely to be the first jurisdiction to offer an MBA for wealth managers, fiduciaries and trustees, in association with the Society for Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) and the International Trust Companies Association. Read the Full Article
Washington, DC. – Three corporate and educational leaders have formed an alliance to develop, for the first time ever, a systematic, nationwide plan for community and technical college faculty development in the field of information technology (IT). Read the Full Article
But in recent months, several Chinese universities have expanded their horizons by beginning to cooperate with overseas institutions to start real-time online-education projects. Read the Full Article
The Fourth meeting of the India-UK Round Table which concluded its three-day meeting at Kingston-upon-Thames, on the outskirts of London, last evening has recommended the setting up of a working group to draw up proposals for establishing such a trust fund. Read the Full Article
The Ministry of Education, in cooperation with UNESCO, has finalised a six-part national education-for-all strategy that will be implemented over the next 13 years, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported on Sunday. Read the Full Article
Some people on the 14-member rule-making panel had strong reservations about changing the regulation, which is known as the 12-hour rule. Read the Full Story
Citing a need for streamlined institutional efficiencies and improved services to students, faculty and staff, a consortium of Wisconsin Technical Colleges has chosen CollegisEduprise to host PeopleSoft applications for financials, human resources and student administration systems. The WILM Consortium is comprised of three Wisconsin colleges – Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College, Lakeshore Technical College and Mid-State […]
The six-year-old private company launched a program to allow universities using the services of a top competitor, WebCT Inc., to easily switch to Blackboard’s program. Read the Full Story
In the past 10 years, the number of classes being offered on the Web has grown tremendously. Collaborative learning technologies enabled by the Internet have refreshed the tradition of distance education and made distance learning an attractive new way to learn. This also offers an attractive way to teach, and many instructors are being asked […]