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Modern colleges increasingly catering to adult students’ non-traditional schedules

Gone are the days when the pursuit of higher education rested on the shoulders of the young. Today, the faces dotting the higher education landscape consist of working professionals, many well beyond their 20s.Read the Full Story

2005 Blackboard Asia Pacific Users Conference in Australia This September

– Attendees Will Gain Unique Networking Opportunities and Learn How to “Innovate Together” With Blackboard Users in the Asia Pacific RegionRead the Full Story

Downlaod Action Plan: Businesses Call for Boosting Math and Science Education

Fifteen business groups have released an action plan to double the number of graduates earning bachelor’s degrees in mathematics, science, technology and engineering in the next decade.Read the Full Story

District, teachers at odds over validity of online degrees

HURON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Two teachers who earned doctorates online do not deserve the pay raises that come with them because the university that awarded them is not accredited, officials with their suburban Detroit school district say.Read the Full Story

AMA to use satellite-based system for e-learning service

IT school AMA Education System recently signed up with Mabuhay Satellite Corp to replace the school’s frame relay infrastructure with a satellite-based delivery system for its online distance learning program. Read the Full Story

Open University revision for 21st century

THE face of late-night television is set to change forever after Open University announced it will no longer be broadcasting its late-night programmes.Read the Full Story

More People Turn to the Web to Watch TV

For two decades, media company executives and advertisers have been talking about creating fully interactive television that would allow viewers to watch exactly what they want, when they want it.Read the Full Story

Internet2 and HaiVision collaborate to deliver SIGGRAPH network streaming

Internet2 and HaiVision collaborate to deliver high resolution network streaming of SIGGRAPH 2005 sessions Montreal, Canada, August 1, 2005 – HaiVision Systems Inc., a leader in interactive networked video communications, and Internet2, the foremost U.S. advanced networking consortium led by the research and higher education community, announce today that they are collaborating to deliver select […]

Students ‘to spend £9bn in year’

UK students will spend £9bn over the next year, with about £3.5bn going on rent, a study suggests.Read the Full Story

Student Satisfaction: A Distance Learning Model for Training Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments in New York State. Research Report

Abstract: Since 1920, the Hadley School for the Blind in Winnetka, Illinois, has provided distance learning (via correspondence courses) to individuals who are visually impaired (that is, are blind or have low vision) and their families to support the acquisition of specialized skills and to attain the knowledge needed for full participation in life (Wolffe, […]