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Cisco Systems, a worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, will join with the University of Alaska Anchorage Community and Technical College to establish a Cisco Networking Academy program in Anchorage.
Capella University named one of the nation’s top online learning and continuing education leaders as its new president and chief executive officer. Dr. Michael Offerman, founder and executive director of the University of Wisconsin System’s Learning Innovations Center and dean of the system’s 160,000-student continuing education program, takes the helm of Capella University, the fastest-growing […]
Some providers of online educational content are breaking their courses down into small chunks. Students take only those lessons that they need, instead of sitting through an entire course that may repeat information they already know.
THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA announced plans Wednesday to provide handheld computers to all of its incoming freshmen this fall, as well as to first-year law and medical students. South Dakota appears to be the first institution aiming to provide every undergraduate with a wireless handheld device.
Academic Systems, the higher education division of Lightspan, Inc. and a leading provider of interactive, multimedia instructional programs for college students, and Blackboard Inc., a leading e-education infrastructure company, today announced the signing of a statewide license agreement with the Florida Virtual Campus (FVC), which promotes distance learning to Floridas 38 community colleges and universities.) […]
Technology scenarios being outlined for university to keep up with its peers in education.
Consider the current research of Jacob Yadegar who has developed the Web-as-brain metaphor.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Citing a desire to continue the positive efforts to simplify burdensome regulations made in the Higher Education Act reauthorization of 1998, Rep. Howard P. Buck McKeon (R-CA) announced a new effort to streamline bureaucracy in higher education policy in a speech to the American Council of Education, an organization representing postsecondary associations. […]
As the multifaceted environment of the Internet continues to evolve, web accessibility has become a major issue in terms of providing effective communication to the public. In the last five years, the United States Department of Justice and the United States Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights (OCR) have upheld decisions making public entities […]