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College Navigator consists primarily of the latest data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), the core postsecondary education data collection program for NCES – the National Center for Education Statistics.SOURCE: US Department of EducationAccess College Navigator
Students and families can compare colleges’ tuitions, the pace at which they are rising and the net cost of attending each college on a new Web site the Department of Education made public on Thursday, fulfilling a legislative mandate. SOURCE: The New York TimesRead the Full Article
U.S. News & World Report, which in the last three decades has become one of the most successful and controversial kingmakers in higher education, is taking preliminary steps to apply its rankings to the increasingly important realm of online colleges. SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed Read the Full Article
Abstract The exploration of study orchestrations emphasises students’ active participation in learning, describing the ways in which they marshal the resources available to them in response to their learning environment. This study reports the identification of study orchestrations in a group of distance students and identifies the existence of dissonant study orchestrations, which previous research […]
Two blind students at Florida State University have sued the institution and its Board of Trustees for discrimination, arguing that a mathematics course at the university relied on e-learning systems that were not accessible to the disabled.SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education Read the Full Article
Cognitive scientists find that when teaching young children, there is a trade-off between direct instruction and independent exploration.SOURCE: MIT Read the Full Article
Jeffrey S. Russell has been named vice provost for lifelong learning and dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Continuing Studies.SOURCE: University of Wisconsin-MadisonRead the Press Release
Bryn Mawr—The small liberal-arts college in this Pennsylvania town offers students an intimate learning experience. There is one professor for every eight students, each of whom pays about $40,000 for that kind of access. Now the college wants to add courses that are partly online into this setting, and it wants other liberal-arts institutions to […]
In just three years, the number of high school students who have access to online learning has tripled, while twice as many middle school students are now learning online, according to a new report.SOURCE: eSchool NewsRead the Full Article
A proposed new rule for the federal e-Rate program could discourage schools from buying service contracts when they purchase network equipment, at least one program expert warns.SOURCE: eSchool News Read the Full Article