Public Broadcasting Service and TimeTrade Systems to Offer Web-based Scheduling Solutions to Higher Education Market
Alliance to help colleges and universities streamline schedule-driven processes
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SMARTHINKINGINTO Forges Partnerships with Consortia in Six States to Support Students
WASHINGTON, D.C. – August 9, 2001 — Beginning this fall, consortia in California, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland and New Jersey will offer their schools and students around-the-clock tutoring and academic support services provided by SMARTHINKING, the nation’s leading provider of online tutoring and academic assistance for college students. SMARTHINKING serves more than 100 schools, the […]
How’s University of Hawai’i-Kaua’i sound
KCC, for example, is already a “de facto” four-year school by virtue of its distance learning capabilities and offering bachelor’s degrees in various fields.
Course on Paris to Educate by Virtual Tourism
To compare and contrast social climates and outlooks on moral issues, a typical 18th-century Parisian provides a better counterpart than a 21st-century one to contemporary Americans, says a Penn State cultural theorist who’s teaching a new class on the city of Paris this fall. While it’s introducing the cultural, artistic, literary and social life of […]
Courses for Profit: Does e-learning abuse academic labor?
Just about everyone agrees that e-learning is good for students. What has not been thoroughly addressed, however, is the effect of distance education on teachers, particularly in higher education. I contend that teachers often get the short end of the e-learning stick. We can fix this, but we need to define the problem better and […]
UNext Seeks to Restructure Its Relationships With Universities
UNext is asking the prestigious universities that are its academic partners to restructure their agreements with the company.
AIMA to offer management education through the Net
In a planned shift from distance education to instant education, the All India Management Association (AIMA) is in the process of creating a virtual campus offering its management education courses through the Net.
Access: Distance learning brings campus to those with limited time
Students from Bolivia, Turkey and Germantown will come together for college classes this fall at the University of Memphis, which is nothing unusual — except that when class is over, they’ll switch off their computers and go back to their regular lives in Bolivia, Turkey and Germantown.
Cenquest to Provide e-Learning Component of Trium Executive MBA Program
Cenquest, the leading provider of corporate-customized e-learning degree programs, has announced that it is providing the e-learning component for TRIUM, the world’s first truly global MBA program. The e-learning portion of the program will be used as a “home base” for students and will serve to complement the face-to-face components of the education experience. The […]
The Multiple Modes of Learning
…four universities spanning several continents — the University of the Western Cape (UWC), the University of British Columbia, the University of Technology and the University of Linkoping — have collaborated to launch a two-year online master’s programme called the intercontinental master’s in adult learning and global change.