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Online college classes offer valuable option for students

Kathy Gould needed a convenient way to combine her part-time job at a Kohl’s department store and maintain a full-time course load at Camden County College. When she could not fit one more class into her daily schedule, she found another option – online classes.Read the Full Story

The Grable Foundation and The Heinz Endowments Grant $200,000 To Subsidize Quantum Tutoring Software For High Schools In Southwestern Pennsylvania

Funding is administered to schools through the Allegheny Intermediate Unit (AIU) Math & Science Collaborative and is estimated to provide personal tutoring assistance to more than 12,000 students over a five-year periodRead the Full Story

Tech gadgets challenge educators

For a lot of kids, back-to-school shopping means checking out the latest technological gadgetry. And for educators, that means new headaches as they seek to update and enforce their policies on gadgets in the classroom.Read the Full Story

The League for Innovation in the Community College: 2005 Conference on Information Technology

The League for Innovation’s annual Conference on Information Technology (CIT) offers a diverse program and cutting-edge exposition exploring the intelligent application of information technology in community and technical colleges.Visit the conference website

Download Report: The Internet at School

The internet is an important element in the overall educational experience of many teenagers. Schools are a common location where online teens access the web, although very few online teenagers rely exclusively on their school for that web access. Further, there is widespread agreement among teens and their parents that the internet can be a […]

Blogging classroom connects to parents

ST. PETERSBURG – Some parents struggle to get their children to surrender even a scrap of information about what they did in school.Read the Full Story

Web Is Awash With Resources for Teaching About the Constitution

With a new federal law kicking in this fall that requires public school teachers to teach about the U.S. Constitution, a number of organizations have prepared free materials and Internet resources related to the topic.Read the Full Story

Construction Industry Needs One Million Workers by 2012

ALEXANDRIA, VA- The U.S. construction industry is the world’s largest industry, according to the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER). Employing some 6.9 million people, the construction industry offers career opportunities ranging from carpenters, electronic systems technicians, building inspectors to project managers.Read the Full Story

Class.com Provides Curriculum for Phoenix Union Cyber High School

“Class.com is proud to partner with Phoenix Union in establishing a truly original model of high school education that puts students first and ensures that all students can learn in the ways that work best for them,” said Class.com CEO Katherine Endacott. “The new Cyber High School is a great example of how schools can […]

Personalisation for All: Making Adaptive Course Composition Easy

ABSTRACTThe goal of personalised eLearning is to support e-learning content, activities and collaboration, adapted to the specific needs and influenced by specific preferences of the learner and built on sound pedagogic strategies. One of the major challenges to the mainstream adoption of personalised eLearning is the complexity and time involved in composing the adaptive learning […]