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SOUTH KOREA’S Seoul National University has begun an online language-education program aimed at students and academics who number themselves among the 5.7 million ethnic Koreans estimated to be living outside South Korea.
A government panel proposed Wednesday that universities “go virtual” by allowing students to take all correspondence courses over the Internet and letting ordinary students earn up to half their credits this way.
On Nov. 13, NetBig.com, Chinas biggest education Web portal, signed an official merger agreement with Chinaedu.com, a home-schooling education site, to develop an Internet platform for elementary, middle school and college education.
Johannesburg (Mail and Guardian, November 17, 2000) – Educational qualifications are now just a few mouse clicks away ” if you have access to the Internet.
Johannesburg (Mail and Guardian, November 17, 2000) – The government seems set on a collision course with distance education providers.
Johannesburg (Mail and Guardian, November 17, 2000) – Massive political will is needed to ensure distance learning can perform its vital roles.
Johannesburg (Mail and Guardian, November 17, 2000) – Contact tuition and distance learning were, until recently, contrasting modes of education, and never the two did meet. Distance learning was also usually considered the poor cousin of face- to-face learning. These assumptions are increasingly being challenged.
BEIJING, November 15 (Xinhua)– Through the Internet more Chinese people will have access to universities through long- distance education courses.
HANOI, Vietnam — Ask Truong Gia Binh whom he looks to for inspiration in running Vietnam’s largest technology company, and he doesn’t name William H. Gates, Steve Jobs or any other Silicon Valley warrior.
OTTAWA, Nov 14, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) — International Datacasting Corporation (TSE:IDC.) and its partner in Mexico, Grupo Etercom S.A. de C.V., are pleased to announce a new contract with Mexico’s Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) to expand the encryption capabilities of their Universidad Virtual Empresarial (UVE) Network.
