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Walden University was selected from more than 100 applicants to help the Department of Education explore ways distance learning can increase accessibility and lower the cost of quality education online. Starting on July 1, Walden will join forces with the 1970s when Title IV restricted schools with more than a 50 percent distance learning base […]
The University of Washington has received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to develop an online Master’s Degree in Construction Engineering. The $165,000 grant will allow the College of Architecture and Urban Planning and the College of Engineering to add or modify existing classroom courses, to give students the opportunity to take them […]
U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige today announced the selection of ten new projects under the Distance Education Demonstration program, which tests new ways of helping students finance their distance education studies. “This administration wants to make sure that no one is left behind when it comes to access to higher education and training,” Paige […]
WebCT and Datatel recently announced an agreement to jointly deliver advanced solutions for post secondary education institutions. The technology and marketing agreement brings together the strengths and expertise of both companies to provide seamless integration between WebCT their course management system and Datatel’s comprehensive Colleague information management solution for higher education. Under the terms of […]
Wide Learning, a leading supplier of e-learning solutions to the finance industry, has been selected to provide financial coursework at Fathom, the unique knowledge and education website. Wide Learning will make a library of high-quality finance courses available for enrollment through the Fathom Web site, which also features courses from universities such as Columbia University, […]
Brenda Clark can tell you what her teachers say, how they teach, and even what makes them laugh. But don’t ask her what they look like. She never met most of them. Ms. Clark just finished her fifth college-level course in library science through the Kentucky Virtual University.
With increasing competition for college and graduate school fueling a rise in site traffic and revenue, kaptest.com, the online test prep unit of Kaplan, Inc., has introduced a newly designed web site.
ApplyYourself, Inc., a leading provider of Internet-based recruitment and enrollment solutions for colleges and universities, today released “The Internet as a Tool in Graduate School Admission – 2001: A Report on the Uses of Technology in Graduate and Professional School Admission,” a study conducted by Education Now, an independent education consulting firm, and commissioned by […]
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has received two grants, totaling $11-million, for its OpenCourseWare project. The MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) project makes course materials used in the teaching of most of MIT’s courses available on the Web, free of charge, to any user anywhere in the world. The project is expected to begin in Fall, 2002 […]
Faculty at the University of Maryland’s College of Education thought they were on to something when they hit on the idea of offering an online cirriculum for teaching secondary-school teachers. The courses, they figured, would be a great way to combat the state’s mounting high school teacher shortage. The hope was that the convenience of […]