Stationed in Iraq, his college studies continue
While serving a five-month stint in Iraq this spring, Ortega continued taking classes for his associate’s degree in fire technology from Allan Hancock College.Read the Full Story
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Trump University: You’re Wired!
With business schools around the country using Donald Trump’s reality TV vehicle The Apprentice as a teaching tool, perhaps it was just a matter of time before The Donald cut out the middleman. On May 23, the real estate mogul formally launched Trump University — a foray into the fast-growing field of online education. Courses […]
Blackboard Transaction System – Universal Edition Unveiled
WASHINGTON, DC, May 05, 2005 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) — Blackboard Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBB) is pleased to announce the launch of the Blackboard Transaction System – Universal Edition(TM), the next generation transaction system, to securely process campus transactions involving dollars, data, access and authentication.Read the Full Story
Lifelong Learning Is Goal of Microsoft Commitment to Digital Inclusion
REDMOND, Wash., April 27, 2005 — Early this year, Reyna Estela Ramos de Valenzuela opened a business of her own — Cybercafé Compudiver, a cybercafé run out of her garage in Guatemala City, Guatemala that offers Internet access, graphic design solutions, printing and scanning assistance, and other services.Read the Full Story
PBS drops its middleman role in college telecourses
Millions of students still can’t get to campus for lectures, and colleges increasingly are serving them by making their own computer-based courses using CD-ROMs, Internet discussion groups and online readings instead of the video-based courses for which ALS was a major promoter and middleman, PBS officials said.Read the Full Story
IRAQ: MoE to launch education channel
“The idea of this channel is similar to the educational TV established during the 1970s. We are going to present the entire curriculum for all grades, along with scientific programmes which are useful for the students,” Baha’a Yehyah, director of the education channel, told IRIN in the capital Baghdad. Read the Full Story
Online Education Changes Traditional Homeschooling
The power of information technology allows academies to offer unprecedented learning opportunities at home, according to Ralf Augstroze, vice president of solutions development for leading online Christian educational ministry Learning by Grace.Read the Full Story
Public schools wooing home-schooled students
The instructor wanted to know whether Peter, who is home-schooled alongside his three brothers, liked being taught by his mother, and why he didn’t come to public school full-time, instead of just for music.Read the Full Story
High School Students Using Dual Enrollment Programs to Earn College Credits, New Reports Say
High school students are taking advantage of programs to earn college credits, according to two new reports by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics.Read the Full Story
Homeschool numbers growing, tracking difficult
“Until the 1980s, most of the students kept out of regular schools to be homeschooled were breaking state laws,” says JoAnn C. Vender, graduate student in geography. “In research on the geography of education, there are very few studies on home schooling because the data are hard to pin down.Read the Full Story
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