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XanEdu Partnership Expands Fathom’s Curriculum Base

ANN ARBOR, Mich.– XanEdu, a division of Bell and Howell Information and Learning (NYSE: BHW – news), today announced a partnership with Fathom Knowledge Network that will place XanEdu CoursePacks into select Fathom online courses. The partnership between Fathom and XanEdu bringstogether two of the most innovative online post-secondary education companies, and puts XanEdu’s vast […]

Streaming Video Makes Physics Class, Lectures a Round-the-Clock

Thanks to a high-tech approach, some professors at Penn State have made one physics class much more than the same-old science. In fact, with the use of streaming video technology, the class known as “Physics 211, General Physics: Mechanics” has become a round-the-clock resource for students.

The Master of Education in e-learning

Jones international University adds masters and certificate programs

State higher education institutions to learn about online teaching

Faculty and administrators representing higher education institutions from throughout the state will assemble at the University of Central Oklahoma Friday to take part in a workshop designed to showcase the latest tool in education. Known as Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT), the online database offers teachers and students worldwide an academic, […]

E-learning explodes into communitty colleges

604 million students take part-time classes

For many students, distance learning is close enough

As e-courses become the college of choice for more degree-seekers, some educators see pitfalls.

In Cyberuniversities, a Place for South Korea’s Women

AN AGGRESSIVE MOVE ONLINE by South Korea’s universities may do the most good for women, who historically have had little access to higher education there.

Student wins $25,000 in Cool Blue VoiceXML Challenge

Brent Metz, a Virginia Tech University student, has won the $25,000 prize in the IBM “Cool Blue VoiceXML Challenge”.

Center for Educational Technology Services at Middlebury College Selects Prometheus to Create Customized Language Platform for Project 2001

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Prometheus — a community-based, open architecture software platform that meets the online needs of educational institutions and is backed by The George Washington University — announced today that it has been selected by the Center for Educational Technology (CET) at Middlebury College to provide a platform for inter-institutional collaboration for the Center’s […]

‘Sound Medicine’ radio program premieres next Saturday

Physicians from the Indiana University School of Medicine will soon deliver healthy doses of medical information to listeners through a new WFYI Public Radio series that can be heard locally at 90.1 FM. Sound Medicine debuts 12 p.m. (local time), Saturday, April 7, tackling the latest developments in health care and research. The program also […]