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The Kentucky Virtual University, the state’s official virtual campus, experienced a 112 percent increase in student enrollment this fall. Preliminary fall numbers show that 5,034 students are enrolled at the cyber campus, up from 2,372 from last fall. Officials said enrollments were driven by the addition of 24 new programs and increased capacity in existing […]
Wisconsin Governor Scott McCallum joins University of Wisconsin-Stout and Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE: CPQ – news) as they sign a $25 million, seven-year mobility initiative in a ceremony today on University of Wisconsin-Stout’s main campus. Unprecedented in the University of Wisconsin system, the initiative will provide the latest Compaq enterprise-class notebooks to every UW-Stout freshman […]
The National Science Foundation (news – web sites) has set aside $12 million over the next three years to help university-led groups and research centers figure out the “plumbing” of Internet applications.
When Joey Potter graduated from high school in this dusty delta town, college was the furthest thing from his mind. He wanted a paycheck – fast. But a decade later, the thrill of a fat wallet had given way to the drudgery of factory jobs. With the added responsibility of marriage and parenthood, he decided […]
XanEdu recently announced a partnership with Pearson Education to create fully integrated print and digital CoursePack solutions with Pearson’s Custom Publishing Division. Generating specialized CoursePacks to complement designated textbook curricula, the partnership will link proven texts with XanEdu’s vast digital archive of commercial and scholarly journals, periodicals, newspapers, books, dissertations, primary literature works and academic […]
The Federal Communications Commission has made it official. The agency announced Monday that it would not oust educational broadcasters from their radio spectrum to make way for Web-surfing cell phones and other new mobile devices.
Internet2 will host the first ever Virtual Member Meeting on October 2-5. This is an opportunity to capitalize on video and collaboration technologies by benchmarking how far we’ve come in networking and applications, and setting a baseline from which we can make progress. This promises to be an exciting and innovative event. Watch this space […]
This week’s special guest on LearningWeek Live – the first interactive weekly webcast featuring stories about the people, technology and business of learning today – is Matthew Pittinsky of Blackboard Inc. Blackboard Inc. Chairman Matthew Pittinsky is a recognized leader in the field of e-Education and, particularly, on the Internet’s impact at institutions of higher […]
Dismayed by what he perceives as a liberal bias in American higher education, Richard J. Bishirjian has created Yorktown University, an online institution tailored for conservatives.