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Book: E-learning QUICK Checklist

It contains many practical items that the reader can use as review criteria to check if e-learning modules, courses and programs provide the level of services that learners (or consumers) should expect.Read the Full Story

Lois Hole Leaves Tremendous Legacy to Education

Lois Hole had a long relationship with Athabasca University. She was a member of Governing Council from 1971 to 1984.Read the Full Story

Public colleges face rising demand, reduced support

But John Arcilla, a 20-year-old accounting major, is confident that the diploma he earns on the satellite campus will carry the same weight. Read the Full Story

Digital is twice as nice for IPTV (Iowa Public Television)

IPTV is using the channel to show many additional programs such as “Ocean Wilds,” “Secrets of the Dead,” “Smart Gardening” and “Mary Lou’s Flip Flop Show,” extra airings of “Great Performances,” and high-definition versions of “Nature” and “Nova” at the same time the programs are shown on the traditional channel.Read the Full Story

Distance education to reach rural areas by 2007

The Ministry of Education, the State Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance are jointly responsible for the program in elementary and middle schools. Read the Full Story

Distance degree in clear -Court endorses correspondence course for school jobs

Justice Indira Banerjee directed the SSC to make fresh arrangements for the interview of a candidate for the post of headmaster in a Murshidabad school, who was denied permission for having obtained his degree following a distance learning course.Read the Full Story

International Study Questions Computers’ Aid in Learning

The analysis looks at survey data from the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, a test of the achievement of 15-year-old students that is conducted in 32 countries. The countries include 28 of the 30 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which sponsors the test.Read the Full Story

USC Distance Learning Goes International

Thursday, January 06, 2005 — An educational revolution has spread worldwide. The University of Southern California’s innovative Distance Education Network (DEN) and ChevronTexaco Corp. announced an agreement today to offer DEN’s “smart oilfield technologies” program to ChevronTexaco engineers around the world.Read the Full Story

Students Embrace Online Learning

The Quality and Extent of Online Education in the United States, 2003 and 2004,” by the Sloan Center for Online Education, more than 1.9 million students were studying online in the fall of 2003, a 19.8 percent increase over fall 2002. The study was based on a survey of 1,100 U.S. colleges and universities. The […]

Authentication >> The Power of Who

In the ever-changing environment of academic technology, it’s one thing to secure your enterprise network, but entirely another to provision it to control access based on a user’s identity. Read the Full Story