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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – With silos bursting with corn and soybeans in Indiana, 27 students in Purdue University’s executive MBA in agribusiness program are planting seeds for the future of the industry and their careers.
An instructor at Mount Royal College has developed a free software program available to instructors who want confidential teaching evaluations from their students. Bruce Ravelli, an instructor of sociology, developed the program two years ago with the designer Zvjezdan Patz. It is known as the Free Assessment Summary Tool, or FAST.
How universities are tackling academic plagiarism on the internet, says Lee Elliot Major
As an adult learner, online courses may best fit your schedule. Yet a part of you values the face-to-face interaction between instructor and learner-experience that adult learners are often forced to forego. What do you do if you want something different? What other options are available for the adult learner who needs flexibility but wants […]
The College of Continuing Education (CCE) at the University of Minnesota has a long tradition of harnessing technology to deliver curriculum to nontraditional students. Today one of the tools at the College’s disposal is the Internet. For years the college has offered dozens of credit courses online. Recently, it has begun to convert its most […]
UNext, a major provider of online management education, has signed agreements with two electronic-information companies to market and sell its courses. The move is intended to bolster sagging sales, which forced UNext to lay off 135 of its 325 workers in September. (See an article from The Chronicle, September 13, 2001.)
Blackboard Inc. chalked up its fourth acquisition in the online learning sector today, buying software created at George Washington University that helps teachers put course material on the Web and is used by more than 65 schools across the nation.
Distance education reflects the mission of the U. of the South Pacific
Advanced networking makes it possible for dancers, actors, and musicians to perform together even when separated by thousands of miles
New degree to be the first of its kind in nine-state Western region A new program at the UW will make it possible for aspiring librarians to get the education they need to advance their careers, without having to relocate or leave their jobs. Starting this fall, the Information School of the University of Washington […]