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Capella Education Company, a provider of online post-secondary education through its wholly owned subsidiary Capella University, Monday announced that it has acquired Resource Development International Ltd (RDI), an independent provider of United Kingdom (UK) university distance learning qualifications, for £9.3 million ($14.9 million).SOURCE: InvestinUKRead the Pres Release
NetSpot announced a $200,000 eLearning Innovation Fund today at the annual Moodle Conference in Sydney in front of over 500 delegates.SOURCE: NewsMakerRead the Press Release
Ambient Insight Reports Strong International Demand for eLearningSOURCE: PR Newswire Read the Full Article
When a cadre of international scientific research powerhouses announced last month that they were teaming up to create a top-shelf, peer-reviewed free journal in the medical and life sciences fields, some called it a “triumph of open access” — proof that the tide was turning in favor of a once-radical movement aimed at cutting through […]
The Open University has announced tuition fees of £5,000 per year from next year – making it much cheaper than most other universities.SOURCE: BBC News Read the Full Article
Geography results from the National Report Card show that few students have a ‘proficient’ understanding of geography, as reading and math push social sciences out of the classroom.SOURCE: The Christian Science Monitor Read the Full Article
The rise of Internet search engines like Google has changed the way our brain remembers information, according to research by Columbia University psychologist Betsy Sparrow published July 14 in Science.SOURCE: Columbia University Read the Full Article
U.S. lags with state-control stepsSOURCE: The Washington TimesRead the Full Article
Community college students who enroll in distance courses are more likely to fail or drop out than are those in in-person classes, study finds.SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed Read the Full Article
AbstractThis paper examines how student effort, consistency, motivation, and marginal learning, influence student grades in an online course. We use data from eleven Microeconomics courses taught online for a total of 212 students. Our findings show that consistency, or less time variation, is a statistically significant explanatory variable, whereas effort, or total minutes spent online, […]