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A Community College Offers a Taste of Online Study

St. Petersburg College, a community college in Florida, has set up a sample online course on its Web page. The noncredit course, which covers the basics of taking an online course at the college, is brief and free to the public.

More college, tech school applicants using online forms

With a softball scholarship in the offing, Rebekah Oestreich is not your typical applicant to the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

AFI, Columbia Digital Create Online DV Filmmaking

The American Film Institute (AFI), Columbia Digital Knowledge Ventures and digital filmmaking expert Michael Rubin have created AFI’s first online course to teach students how to shoot and edit their own digital video project.

Young Students by the Thousand Turn to the Open University

The number of young people learning with the Open University has almost doubled in five years according to new figures that show one in every 12 OU students is 24 or younger. The number of OU undergraduate students aged under 24 in the UK has risen from 5,894 in 1996/97 to 11,360 in 2000/01 – […]

eCollege AUSM Takes eLearning Courseware to a Whole New Level

DENVER – January 23, 2002 – eCollegeSM [Nasdaq: ECLG], the leading provider of technology and services for online education programs, today announced that eCollege AUSM, the next generation of its leading eLearning platform, provides enhanced features not available through any other platform on the market. Created entirely from faculty direction, eCollege AU is all "About […]

Centra Facilitates Success of eLearning in North American Universities

Centra (NASDAQ: CTRA) today announced that Alberta’s Northern Lakes College will use Centra’s eLearning and Web collaboration platform, CentraOne, to deliver college programs to adult learners in rural communities over the Internet. The College, which has delivered distance education for 20 years, plans to replace its current distance-learning technologies with CentraOne. Live, instructor-led courses and […]

Designer of Free Course-Management Software Asks, What Makes a Good Web Site?

What makes a good course Web site? That’s one of the questions facing Charles F. Kerns, education-technology manager for academic computing at Stanford University, as he helps design a new course-management system that will be free for any college to use.

Vo-Tech distance-learning lab in need of BOE funds

KEYSER — The Mineral County Vo-Tech Center will need to make preparations soon if the Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College is to have its distance-learning lab up and running by the 2002-2003 school year, according to Vo-Tech Director Alan Whetzel.

Government Plans For Open University Opposed

JOHANNESBURG, (IPS) – Plans to create Africa’s largest distance learning education is being frustrated by managements opposed to the changes.

National University looks to future with new Brookside campus

Offbeat scheduling, tech appeal big draws at booming private college