Higher learning on the Internet
With two young children, a full-time secretarial job, and a husband who works 60 hours a week, Lisa Frakes feared she would never complete her bachelor’s degree at California State University, Northridge.
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Company Erroneously Demands Payment for Colleges’ Internet Domains
More than 6,000 colleges and other organizations using “.edu” Internet addresses received an unexpected — and incorrect — bill last month from the Web-registry company VeriSign asking them to pay to renew their “.edu” addresses. The incorrect billings were a result of a computer glitch as the company handed over control of “.edu” registrations to […]
Enrollment up 12% at Community College of Philadelphia; New Students up 15% Over Spring 2001
Community College of Philadelphia will begin its spring semester on January 14th with a 12% rise in overall enrollment, and a 15% jump in number of new students, compared to spring 2001. 15,000 new students have registered, almost 9,000 of them part-time. College President Stephen M. Curtis attributes much of the growth to the economy. […]
Distance Education Enrollments Up 171% for Corinthian Colleges
Corinthian Colleges, Inc. (Nasdaq: COCO) today said that registrations in online courses for the quarter ended December 31, 2001 rose 171% compared with the same quarter of last year. Course registrations for the fall term increased to 3,456, setting a company record. Moreover, in response to the burgeoning interest in the company’s newest offering of […]
George Mason University and VCampus Teach Trainers to Deliver Web-Based Learning Through New Online Course
VCampus® Corporation (Nasdaq: VCMP), the leading provider of end-to-end, web-based e-Learning solutions, and George Mason University, are launching the online workshop titled ³Online Instruction: Migrating Traditional Training to Online,² to help trainers deliver more effective programs by incorporating online communications techniques. The eight-week, online workshop begins February 4, 2002, and provides four Continuing Education Credits […]
American Military University to Offer New Online Courses to Students
Eight new online courses will be created for the American Military University (AMU) through a joint partnership with McGraw-Hill Higher Education and Archimedes Laboratory, LLC. Under the agreement, McGraw-Hill Higher Education will work in cooperation with Archimedes to provide print and electronic versions of reference textbooks for the courses, which will be offered in university-level […]
ProsoftTraining Announces Publishing Partnership with WebCT
ProsoftTraining (Nasdaq:POSO) today announced that it has partnered with WebCT, the world’s leading provider of e-learning systems for higher education. Under the terms of the agreement, Prosoft will develop new WebCT e-Packs for its CIW Foundations, CIW Site Designer and CIW E-Commerce Designer course materials. Most academic institutions are looking to add an online component […]
VCampus Introduces “Security Short” on Selecting a Good Password
VCampus® Corporation (Nasdaq: VCMP), the leading provider of end-to-end, web-based e-Learning solutions, has launched the course “Selecting a Good Password” on its Security College Online campus www.securitycollegeonline.com The course, which takes employees less than 10 minutes to complete and costs $3 per user, gives basic instruction on how to select passwords that are easy for […]