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A group of 65 teachers from 17 Georgia counties will be the first to complete an innovative on-line certification program in special education when the University of Georgia College of Education holds its fall convocation Friday, Dec. 14. The teachers are earning their special endorsement add-on certificate in interrelated special education through a program called […]
Duke University Medical Center researchers are leading a group of 15 institutions in an international effort to evaluate the performance and effectiveness of assistive technologies – devices that assist people with physical and mental impairments. The study, funded by a $2.3 million grant from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) of the […]
Sarah E. Cheverton, manager of faculty-development services at James Madison University, helps run an extensive faculty-support system for the university’s distance-education program. Among other services, her department offers a series of workshops and “instructional house calls” in which faculty members are taught to use various tools and computer programs.
How long until half the U.S. population will be voting electronically? Will distance learning ever be the predominate form of higher education? The School of Public Policy’s International Center for Applied Studies in Information Technology (ICASIT) and George Washington University’s School of Business have created a partnership to make answers to these kinds of questions […]
Kentucky officials plan to help high-school students prepare for college by expanding the use of online tools, like advanced-placement courses and a math test administered over the Internet.
Administrators at Duke University have decided not to require freshmen to own laptop computers next fall, saying that faculty members aren’t ready to use the technology in their classrooms and that students are concerned about the cost of the machines.
Federal law enforcement agents seized computers and raided computer networks at M.I.T., the University of California at Los Angeles and other large universities today in shutting down what they described as one of the Internet’s largest and most sophisticated software piracy networks.
These are the findings of recent distance education figures released by the University System of Georgia and of market research conducted by Georgia GLOBE (Global Learning Online for Business & Education), which aggregates and markets distance learning opportunities and services available through the USG’s 34 institutions. The rise in the interest of online learning is […]
Continuing four-years of snowballing growth, online admission applications to the California State University for fall 2002 have increased 69 percent. CSUMentor, the online system that helps students and their families plan for and apply to the CSU, received 157,960 applications between Oct. 1 and Nov. 30, up from 93,672 during the same period last year. […]
Responding to the need for insight into the September 11 attack, its background and its aftermath, online education leader Fathom today launched a comprehensive Learning Center entitled “September 11: Before And After,” at its website, www.fathom.com. The Center harnesses the resources and intellectual power of leading scholars at Fathom’s thirteen renowned member institutions, including Columbia […]