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PHOENIX, July 19 /PRNewswire/ — Arizona Connections Academy (ACA) recently announced the addition of the 9th grade curriculum to its virtual school program. The charter amendment request received unanimous approval by the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools earlier this month.Read the Full Story
E-Learning continues to be the fastest-growing sub-sector of a $2.3 trillion global education market. Recent research by Hezel Associates, an education consulting firm, projects the global market for online higher education is estimated to exceed $69 billion by 2015. Institutions seeking to gain a foothold in this sector face a myriad of issues requiring market-specific […]
New Delhi, July 18 (IANS) Capitalising on the shortage of teachers in the US, especially in subjects like mathematics, Indian tutors are finding online education a good revenue spinner in this emerging segment in outsourcing.Read the Full Story
Imagine Cup 2005 draws 16,000 students to innovate and compete. Finals are July 27 – Aug. 1 in Japan.Read the Full Story
Horizon Wimba Adds the Course Genie Content Authoring Tool to its Collaborative Software Suite for Online EducationRead the Full Story
Live eLearning Environment Will Also Provide Support for Off-campus Students, Cross-campus Meetings, and Professional Development for Teachers and StaffRead the Full Story
Abstract Online learning environments provide an unprecedented opportunity to increase student access to higher education. Accomplishing this much needed goal requires the active participation and cooperation of university faculty from a broad spectrum of institutional settings. Although online learning has seen rapid growth in recent years, it remains a relatively small percentage of the entire […]
Twin Cities-based Capella, Walden see heavy growthRead the Full Story
‘We have students right now who are in Iraq, doing their work in tents.’ Ken Grech, dean of the school of technology and design at Kaplan.Read the Full Story
Offerings via Web help poorer areasA growing number of Massachusetts high schools in urban and poorer areas are adding online Advanced Placement courses to catch up with schools in wealthier communities that offer more than a dozen college-level courses in their classrooms.Read the Full Story