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Jim And Diane Ryan Announce Retirement Plans

Jim Ryan, vice president for outreach and cooperative extension, and Diane Ryan, executive director of the Penn State Alumni Association, have announced that they both plan to retire from the University in the summer of 2003. “These leadership positions, in both the Alumni Association and outreach and cooperative extension, are the most exciting in the […]

Northwest Approves eCollege as Enterprise-Wide eLearning Provider

Northwest Takes Advantage of eCollege’s Free On-Campus Offer DENVER – August 12, 2002 – eCollege(SM) [Nasdaq: ECLG], the leading provider of technology and services for online higher education programs, today announced it won the approval of Northwest Missouri State University’s Presidential Cabinet as the University’s sole eLearning provider for its distance and on-campus eLearning courses. […]

World’s Only Online Law School Proving Its Mettle

Less than four years after opening its virtual doors, Concord has become the second largest part-time law school in the country, based on the size of the first-year entering class, and is proving to be a viable model in creating access to a legal education for students worldwide via the Internet Read The Full Article

Fiber-to-the-Home Installations Expanded by More Than 200 Percent in the Past Year

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 /PRNewswire/ — Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) installations increased by well over 200 percent in the past 12 months, according to “U.S. Optical Fiber Communities 2002,” a new list released today by the FTTH Council (available at http://www.ftthcouncil.org/ ). Read The Full Article

MS LearningXP: .Net Meets E-Learning

While Microsoft hasn’t gone so far as to label its Learning Experiencing Project (LearningXP) environment “Education.Net,” it might as well have. Read The Full Article

Mega-university celebrates 10 years of trouble-free financials

UNISA moved off its locally-developed general ledger system in June 1992 to become the first SA organisation to go live with the Oracle solution. Read The Full Article

State plugs back in virtual schools

MADISON — A planned virtual charter school for elementary-age children that was nearly unplugged by state lawmakers n June may still go online this fall. Read The Full Article

Ohio sees surge of interest in online charter schools

At least 192 organizations have told the state of their interest in applying for startup funds for charter schools, most of them school districts, according to state Department of Education records. Read The Full Article

A New Handbook Examines Online Learning From a Psychological Perspective

The book “definitely came out of our own work situation,” Mr. Rudestam says. “Basically, we started writing some of the things that we thought we do well.” Read The Full Article

Building a Classroom the Government Can Afford — Online

Last week, the Office of Personnel Management said 5,000 people have enrolled for free courses at the Government Online Learning Center since its launch July 23. More than 1 million visitors have toured the Internet site (http://www.golearn.gov/). Read The Full Article