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The costs of developing online programs are significant, yet there are few resources to help planners. Here, Judith Boettcher proposes a few guidelines for predicting the costs involved in the design and development of online instruction.Read the Full Story
The Open Polytechnic will be one of two Commonwealth educational institutions to receive an award for institutional excellence from the Vancouver-based Commonwealth of Learning (COL). The Polytechnic, along with Australia’s University of Southern Queensland, was selected from entrants in 14 countries by an international panel of experts.Read the Full Story
At the same time, federal, state, and institutional fi nancial aid to students expanded (The College Board 2003a), and important changes were made in the structure of the fi nancial aid system. At the federal level, the 1992 Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act expanded students’ eligibility for need-based aid, raised student loan limits, and […]
Enrollment figures for the fall 2003 semester — the latest available — include about 57,500 U.S. military members and their dependents. Read the Full Story
What is remarkable about the scene, however, is that because he lacked formal education and has suffered from serious mental illness for more than 20 years, Bill Lego could neither read nor write three years ago. Now the North Adams resident hopes to learn enough to pass the General Education Development test and obtain a […]
Powell, who wants to avoid regulating new technologies like Web-based telephone service for fear of stifling innovation, said he started the blog to encourage the high-tech industry to get involved because its past practice of flying under the radar to avoid regulations would no longer work.Read the Full Story
In this paper I argue that even more important than semantics is pragmatics; that is, to really enhance web usability it is critical to capture and react to aspects of the end use context. Read the Full Story
This month, CSULB begins offering courses online for those seeking a Master of Science degree in engineering management (MSEM). While the university has had courses here and there for different degrees online for several years now, it has not offered an entire degree program online. The MSEM will be the first and it could mean […]
Cuyahoga Community College has three spacious campuses in the Cleveland area, night and weekend classes and increasingly popular distance learning on the Internet. And Columbus State Community College, in downtown Columbus, is planning a new campus in Delaware County. Read the Full Story