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The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) is to offer a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree at its Carlsbad, CA campus. The degree will focus on the business of fine jewelry. The first classes for the program will begin October 9.Read the Full Story
HOLYOKE – City teachers are hoping to expand a program that allowed three students to take a course via the Internet.Read the Full Story
HOLYOKE – City teachers are hoping to expand a program that allowed three students to take a course via the Internet.Read the Full Story
Asked how often he uses Skype, a free Internet service that lets users call around the world at no cost, Andrew Venegas, a junior at San Jose State University, didn’t miss a beat.Read the Full Story
New Haven, Conn. — Yale University is producing digital videos of selected undergraduate courses that it will make available for free on the Internet through a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.Read the Full Story
In 2001, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology started placing materials for its courses online — and making them available for anyone to use, at no cost. OpenCourseWare, which currently contains materials for 1,400 courses, has been a huge success, and thousands of people use the MIT materials each day.Read the Full Story
U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings will announce her plans to help make the U.S. higher education system more affordable, accessible and consumer-friendly on Tuesday, Sept. 26 at 12:30 p.m. at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Chairman Charles Miller and other commission members will join Secretary Spellings.Read the Full Story
U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings today made the following statement on the receipt of the Commission on the Future of Higher Education’s final report:Read the Full Story
“The time has come to write a next major chapter in the development of the University of Illinois,†President B. Joseph White told the UI Board of Trustees at its Sept. 7 meeting in Urbana. White proposed doing that by implementing an extensive online degree program, tentatively known as the Global Campus. White and Chester […]
Texas A&M University system regents signed off Friday on a new interdisciplinary degree plan that could allow Aggies to begin majoring in University Studies as early as next fall.Read the Full Story