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Distance education programs expand degree possibilities, meet growing market

After a long day at work, he would go for a run, take a shower, and have dinner. By 6:30 p.m., he was ready for class. But Napier’s classroom was more than 2,200 miles away from the Boston University campus.Read the Full Story

More students log on to learn

Mutti is among a surging number of high school students inhabiting two educational worlds. While sitting at computers in four-walled classrooms in their hometowns, they attend ”virtual” classes connected by fiber optics and Web-based bulletin boards.Read the Full Story

E-Learning & The Enterprise: Delivering ROI to the Bottom Line

Recognizing that corporate productivity is directly impacted by employee capability, most CEOs will attest that the workforce is the organization’s number one asset. Read the Full Story

Laureate Education Acquires Remaining 49% Interest in Walden University; Now Wholly-Owned, Walden Becomes Centerpiece of Laureate Online

Walden University will be the centerpiece of Laureate Online, the new name of the Company’s online higher education division, previously referred to as Online Higher Education (OHE). Read the Full Story

BSA Commends Senate Appropriations for Including $10 Million in Anti-Piracy Funding in CJS Bill

The Senate version of the bill, S. 2809, passed out of committee yesterday and includes the same level of funding for intellectual property enforcement efforts as was passed by the House of Representatives in July.Read the Full Story

Project SOAR to help DB individualize education

Battelle for Kids, a statewide learning partnership of the Ohio Business Roundtable, announced earlier this week that the Dawson-Bryant School District was one of 36 districts across the state that have been added to Project SOAR (Schools’ Online Achievement Reports), a program designed to help school districts in Ohio analyze student performance data each year.Read […]

Education News Parents Can Use: A television series about ways to ensure children’s educational success

“Reading is the path to success in school and life. When children learn to love books, they learn to love learning.”– Laura BushThis fall marks the beginning of the third full school year since passage of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, and already the benefits to America’s school children are evident. As […]

U.S. Department of Commerce Renews Hosted LMS Contract with GeoLearning

GeoMaestroâ„¢ is an Internet-hosted human capital management and development platform that enables organizations to capture, create, manage and share knowledge to improve workforce productivity, accelerate critical business processes, and drive organizational performance. The system centralizes and automates the entire learning management process, making the administration of enterprise learning and development both effective and efficient. The […]

One of Germany’s Largest Premier Universities Selects Blackboard for e-Learning Strategy

“The e-Learning Steering Committee of the Freie Universitat Berlin has decided to implement a long-range strategy in the field of multimedia based learning, including identifying a Learning Management System (LMS) that is capable of scaling to host a huge number of courses and students,” said Dr. Nicolas Apostolopoulos, Director of the Center for Digital Systems […]

The WebCT Discussion List and How it is Perceived

In many universities in Europe and North America, the use of face-to-face lectures combined with tutorials or workshops is regarded as the preferred, if not the only, delivery medium for materials. That has not been, and is not, the case in Australia. Some Australian universities had been previously designated as centres for distance education. These […]