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VCampus Launches Security College Online; Comprehensive E-Learning Site Addresses Growing Demand for Security Training

VCampus® Corporation (Nasdaq:VCMP), the leading provider of end-to-end, web-based e-Learning solutions, today announced the launch of Security College Online™, the first e-Learning site geared specifically to providing best-in-class instruction on the latest security information and technologies. VCampus worked with leading experts in the field to develop courses that address today’s most important security needs, and […]

Internet grade retrieval becomes only source

Internet use is almost unavoidable now at UW-Madison: each semester students receive valuable information from the administration and professors by e-mail, and a whole world of research was made available at the fingertips when the library created online archives.

USC applications posted online questioned

When University of Southern California was among the first colleges to launch Internet applications in 1997, 100 freshmen submitted applications online. Three years later 2,500 freshmen and 6,500 graduate students applied on the Internet.

Columbia U. reaffirms commitment to online education

With ads in the New Yorker and The New York Times online, posters on campus, and a link from the Columbia University home page, Columbia’s investments in online education are receiving more attention than ever before.

MIT team reports tips for successful virtual collaborations

An interdisciplinary MIT team has identified key factors for successful virtual collaborations among members of globally dispersed teams, and continues work to make virtual meetings more effective. Underway for the last three years, the research integrates both organizational and technological challenges.

Committee at Simon Fraser U. Votes Against Hiring Outspoken Critic of Distance Education

A key committee at Simon Fraser University has voted against offering a prestigious humanities-department appointment to David Noble, an outspoken critic of distance education. The committee’s decision comes nine months after administrators first blocked the appointment, prompting two investigations into whether the scholar was being blackballed for his anti-technology views.

U. Texas professor to lead team against cyber terrorism

Texas — Adm. Bobby Inman, a University of Texas professor and former director of the National Security Agency and deputy director of the CIA, is putting his knowledge to use in the war against terrorism. Inman, the Lyndon B. Johnson Centennial Chair in National Policy, was recently appointed the head of Texas Attorney General John […]

SCOLA Program Gets BU Trial

An Internet-based international news service is undergoing a trial period at Boston University until Dec. 5, allowing BU students to view streaming news webcasts from foreign broadcasts.

E-learning enrollment at UW expands nearly 50%

When she finishes her bachelor’s degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lisa Paladino plans to walk down the aisle with her classmates. It will be her first time on campus. In fact, it will be her first time in Wisconsin.

Capella University Earns North Central Approval to Offer Undergraduate Business Program

Capella University today announced that it has received approval from the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools for its School of Business to offer a Bachelor of Science degree program. The approval makes Capella one of the few universities to offer an accredited upper-division baccalaureate program entirely online.