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DEERFIELD, IL — UNext, a leading education company that uses the Internet to deliver courses to companies and learners throughout the world, today announced a strategic alliance with The Thomson Corporation (TSE:TOC), a global e-information and solutions company in the business and professional marketplace. Thomson has made a strategic investment in UNext and the companies […]
SOME of the world’s leading academics will tomorrow launch a series of internet-based lectures, enabling thousands of students to share what was previously restricted to those who could be in the same room.
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky Virtual University, the fastest-growing online university of its kind, posted a record enrollment of 3,014 students for the Spring 2001 term. This is nearly double the 1,578 enrollment from this time last year. The unofficial Spring 2001 enrollment figures include residents from 119 Kentucky counties, 24 states and four foreign countries. […]
BRISBANE, Calif., — Classroom Connect, Inc. (www.classroom.com), the leading provider of Internet-based curriculum products and professional development programs for K-12 education, announced today it has allied with California State University at Bakersfield (CSUB) to offer graduate hour coursework and continuing education credit through Connected University(TM), Classroom Connect’s award-winning online professional development community for educators. CSUB […]
PRINCETON, N.J. — ETS Technologies, Inc. and the Graduate Management Admissions Council have announced an agreement to offer writing topics from the Graduate Management Admissions Test’s Analytical Writing Assessment as part of ETS Technologies’ Criterion Online Writing Evaluation service. Users of the Criterion service will now have the opportunity to write practice essays on topics […]
NEW YORK, NY — Barnes & Noble College Bookstores, Inc. and WizeUp Digital Textbooks announced plans to expand their relationship and marketing initiatives to accelerate the growth of e-learning in higher education. Together, they will offer students new e-learning tools for distance learning, online training, and interactive classroom applications. “Colleges and universities around the country […]
MEDFORD, Massachusetts (AP) — Claude Shannon, a mathematician and computer scientist whose theories became the basis for modern mass communications networks, died Saturday after battling Alzheimer’s disease. He was 84.
UNIVERSITIES were turning out students ill-equipped to work because they lacked information technology skills, Employment Minister Matt Foley said yesterday.
SIX UNIVERSITIES in six different states have found a way to collaborate across state lines and offer an online master’s degree in family financial planning. And more degrees are in the works.
Distance education is one of the fastest-growing trends in higher education, according to the American Federation of Teachers. In fact, 70 percent of the nation’s more than 4,000 two- and four-year colleges offered online courses last year, up from 48 percent in 1998, according to Market Retrieval Service.