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Polk County Schools may explore ‘virtual high school’

Polk County Schools may help North Carolina explore what high schools in the state could look like in the future. The state has asked Polk County Schools to work with UNC-Greensboro to explore a “virtual high school.”Read the Full Story

More Than 11 Million College Students Receive Financial Aid

About 11.2 million college students, or more than half, received some form of financial aid from outside their families to help pay for their education, according to tabulations released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.Read the Full Story

Chicopee schools adding online courses

CHICOPEE – High school officials will allow more students to take courses online this fall, saying it is a low-cost way of giving students more options. Read the Full Story

Chicopee schools adding online courses

CHICOPEE – High school officials will allow more students to take courses online this fall, saying it is a low-cost way of giving students more options. Read the Full Story

The West Virginia University College of Human Resources and Education: Online education degrees available

The West Virginia University College of Human Resources and Education moved the already established programs online to make them more accessible. Read the Full Story

World Conference on Open Learning and Distance Education this year in Brazil

UNESCO is one of the co-sponsors of the 22nd World Conference on Distance Education, that the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) and the Brazilian Distance Education Association organize from 3 to 6 September 2006 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Read the Full Story

Capella University Announces 10 New Higher Education Partnerships

The Online University Has Alliances With More Than 25 Percent of All United States Community Colleges and Many State Schools Read the Full Story

Argosy University Announces New Online Doctor of Education in Counseling Psychology Program

CHICAGO, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire/ — Argosy University has announced the launch of its Doctor of Education (EdD) in Counseling Psychology online program in its College of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences. The online program is being offered through the Argosy University/Chicago campus. Read the Full Story

Blackboard: Bully or Misunderstood?

Al Gore has yet to live down reports that he claimed to have invented the Internet. Now Blackboard is facing criticism from those who say the giant of the course management industry claims to have invented chat rooms. (If you are wondering, Blackboard says it never made such a claim.)Read the Full Story

Patent on Blackboard’s technology upsets e-learning firms

Meeting his e-tutor face to face for the first time when he visited India during summer holidays was the height of excitement for 10-year-old Farhan. He goes to school in New York and was being taught online by this Bangalore-based math teacher for the past 18 months.Read the Full Story