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INDIANAPOLIS–The Indiana College Network (ICN), Indiana’s version of a virtual university, has increased enrollments by more than 65 percent to 34,000 for the 2000 academic year. This adds up to a 170 percent increase over the last two years. ICN is a service of the Indiana Higher Education Telecommunication System (IHETS), a consortium of higher […]
PORTLAND, OR – October 16, 2001 – Cenquest announced it is delivering the first e-learning courses being offered by the new OGI School of Science & Engineering at Oregon Health & Science University. The recently announced merger between OGI and OHSU is intended to provide a unique academic environment focused on the growing association between […]
This fall, Penn State’s Palmer Museum of Art, Center for the Performing Arts and Department of Integrative Arts have teamed to create a new writing-intensive seminar course taught via the World Wide Web. William Kelly, Integrative Arts department head, says the course aims to stimulate alternative cultural experiences for students. For this semester’s topic, “Arts […]
The college-geared informational web site never caught on with students and is going out of business,
The University of Miami, the largest private research university in the southeast, is joining more than 100 higher education institutions in unifying its technology with the Campus Pipeline Web-integration software to provide students, faculty and staff with single sign-on access to all campus services. The University of Miami prides itself on academic excellence and plans […]
A three-year grant involving more than $850,000 has been awarded to the Indiana University Center on Aging and Aged to pursue an online, worldwide education program for professionals who work with older adults. Barbara Hawkins, director of the center, and Lesa Lorenzen Huber, a research associate at the center, share project investigator duties for the […]
Corinthian Colleges, Inc. (NASDAQ:COCO), today announced that distance education course enrollments rose to approximately 2,750 for the first fiscal quarter of 2002, an increase of 174% compared with the same quarter a year ago. Dave G. Moore, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Corinthian Colleges, said, “The investments we made last year in growing […]
eCornell, Cornell University’s wholly owned for-profit distance learning corporation, was controversial from the onset, as critics accused the University of blurring the distinction between academic prestige and financial gain.
Proposed ethics guidelines for scholars who conduct research in cyberspace are set to be released today in a preliminary report from the Association of Internet Researchers. But the report also reveals disagreements over the lengths that researchers should go to in protecting the identities of online-research participants, especially those in public chat rooms.
VCampus® Corporation (Nasdaq:VCMP) is pleased to make two courses immediately available to assist businesses in protecting themselves against terrorist activity. In addition, VCampus will be adding more courses over the coming weeks. These courses respond to the overwhelming demand from VCampus customers for timely courses and information in today’s new environment. The company is immediately […]