A Questionable Pedigree: Online College Programs Proliferate; Are They Worthwhile?
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (CBS.MW) — With two young children and elderly parents to care for, Andrea Bielecki faced significant barriers to earning a college degree.
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University of Maryland’s School of Public Affairs Offers National Course in ‘Smart Growth
10/16/2000 The Office of Executive Programs in the University of Maryland’s School of Public Affairs will be presenting its first National Course in Smart Growth for management-level officials in federal, state and local government, beginning the week of November 13-17, 2000 at the Bolger Center for Leadership Development in Potomac, MD.
Happy Birthday Carnegie Mellon!
It was only 100 years ago when Carnegie, a steel magnate and philanthropist, envisioned a technical school for the children of local steelworkers.
Marconi Foundation Honors Inventors of the Key to Internet Privacy
Two innovators receive the 26th annual Marconi International Fellowship award presented at Columbia University. Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman will share the $100,000 fellowship prize honoring advances in telecommunications for humanitarian benefit for their mathematical formulations developed nearly 25 years ago that unleashed the key to private communications and secure transactions on the Internet.
The Virtual Microscope
The Virtual Microscope is a development project at The Open University between the Multimedia Enabling Technologies Group and the Department of Earth Sciences.
Renowned Inter-University Program On Negotiation at Harvard Selects booktech.com to Provide Education Materials for Students Worldwide
WOBURN, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 12, 2000–booktech.com (AMEX: BTC, news, msgs), a first mover in digital and on-demand custom-content publishing focused on the education market, has been selected by the prestigious Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (PON) as the distributor of all PON publications and teaching materials, including its internationally recognized Role Simulation Exercises. This […]
Nova Southeastern University to Host Cyber Peace Mission: WORLDLINK 2000 to Celebrate United Nations Day
NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Oct 12, 2000 — Students from all over the world will communicate via cyberspace for 24 hours on October 24th, United Nations Day, at the Nova Southeastern University North Miami Beach campus. The largest cyber event of its kind, WORLDLINK 2000, will unite nearly 300 students, ages 6-18 from the Miami-Dade […]
What Makes an Online Course Succeed? Not Everyone Agrees, a Study Finds
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Colleges Push Plan for Higher Education
TRENTON (AP) – With enrollments at New Jersey colleges expected to surge in the next decade and costs rising steadily, a group representing nine of the state-supported schools yesterday released an action plan addressing looming problems.
Palm Kicks Off Campus Developer Program at EDUCAUSE
Show Features Palm Handheld Computers, Applications and Tools for College Instructors NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 10, 2000 – Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq: PALM) today at the EDUCAUSE 2000 Conference launched its Campus Developer Program, which offers Palm-developed curriculum materials at a greatly reduced cost to colleges and high schools teaching students how to develop software for the […]