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In a special Web event from Stennis Space Center in Mississippi on Thursday, April 26, CNNfyi.com will take students and their teachers on a virtual trip through the Space Shuttle and discuss current and future Mars exploration. Additionally, classes will learn about astronaut training, physiological effects of space travel and careers in the space program. […]
Centra (NASDAQ: CTRA), the world’s leading provider of software and ASP services for live eLearning and collaboration, today announced that the Danish Confederation of Trade Unions, the largest association of public and private sector trade unions in Denmark, has selected Centra’s real-time collaboration software to give their members access to information and skills on new […]
Courses provide easy access to material, but not instructors
IRVINE, Calif. — RnetHealth, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: RNET) today announced a comprehensive partnership with the University of Florida College of Medicine, Continuing Medical and Distance Education, to offer educational programs for students and professionals related to the neurobiology of addiction and the physical and neuropsychological mechanisms of major substances of abuse. The first partnership […]
Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee have enacted a program to offer Advanced Placement courses online for qualified high school students.
The National Education Association has issued a manual asserting that online instruction is almost always more expensive than traditional, in-person instruction.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Strategic Solutions Group, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SSGI – news), a leading services provider of technology-based training and just-in-time information applications for the manufacturing market, today announced that it has a record backlog of contracts to provide services valued in excess of $1.5 million. Additionally, the Company obtained $350,000 from three insiders […]
Gurak proposed a minor in Internet, Science and Society because of student demand. “We’re doing stuff at the graduate level, and the undergrads kept saying, `We’d like to learn some of this stuff, too.”’
(U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES — USC’s distance learning program has its merits, but it must focus on what’s best for both the distance learner as well as the student attending classes on campus.
(U-WIRE) DURHAM, N.C. — While anonymity is considered a blessing if you are a student who does not like going to a 9:10 lecture class, this luxury is slowly being lost as many of the nation’s top universities are instituting systems that enable instructors to easily identify students.