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Roger C. Schank, the founder of the online-learning company Cognitive Arts, says he hopes to gear his company’s courses toward high schools and community colleges that might lack the resources to hire strong professors in subjects like economics and psychology.
Lubos Motl, an undergraduate physics student at Charles University in Prague, was not feeling very cheerful over the Christmas holidays in 1996. His family was shaken by instability, he was suffering chronic stomach pain and he had just been hospitalized after a serious accident at home. And no one at the university knew much about […]
The University of Hawaii has decided to put more education online, offering business courses and other instruction on the “distance learning” track that lets Neighbor Island students essentially take classes on the Internet.
Less money from the state and increasing costs will be on the minds of University of Toledo’s trustees in June as they consider a 6- percent tuition hike for next year.
It’s no secret that a college education provides a solid base for young people as they enter the working world. Most parents plan to send their kids to college, and according to a survey released today, 86 percent say that saving for their children’s education is their top financial priority. However, parents’ current savings habits […]
Petach Tikva, Israel, April 30, 2001 – Gilat Communications Ltd. (NASDAQ; GICOF), a global leader in learning using advanced, blended e-Learning techniques and technologies, today announced that it has successfully launched a live e-Learning system in the broadband environment of Ulbra University, one of Brazil’s most prestigious educational institutions. Ulbra University purchased the TrainNet(tm) system […]
DENVER — The Cable Center announced today that it has formed a partnership with the University of Denver (DU) and C-SPAN to create an innovative, television-based distance learning program at The Cable Center. The project will link DU and eventually other students to Washington, D.C., for courses in political communication using C-SPAN programming. The five-year […]
A study commissioned by Strong Capital Management finds that 68 percent of parents anticipate paying at least half of their children’s higher education expenses, and more than one-quarter of these parents foresee footing the whole bill. Moreover, the study, conducted by TeleNation, found parents expect the total tab for higher education to cost between $50,000 […]
You can now download course catalogs for University of Maine’s ITV, and online courses for summer and fall 2001.
Framingham State College plans to require each freshman to own a wireless laptop computer next year. It is the first Massachusetts public campus to require the use of such technology.