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Technology Can Extend Access to Postsecondary Education: An Action Agenda for the South

This action agenda calls upon college and university and state leaders — in cooperation with SREB — to work together toward results in four priority areas:  Extend citizen and student access to infrastructure, programs, services and training. Take advantage of regional resources that can be shared. Use state and institutional financing policies to more […]

Problems at e-learning university

One difficulty is that many UK universities have been offering their own online courses, bypassing UKeU. Read the Full Story

Teachers reach far-flung students via Net

One student is in Bahrain, another is in Ansbach, Germany, and a few more are in England. He has two from Patch, but he nearly always meets them online when they take his distance learning Advanced Placement American history class. Read the Full Story

OLA [Open Learning Agency] severance payouts questioned

The B.C. Liberals are in the process of closing OLA, a virtual university recognized around the world for providing long-distance learning opportunities. Read the Full Story

KVCC [Kalamazoo Valley Community College] to offer executive training

The 20-week, two-semester program begins March 8 and will mark only the fourth distance-learning site offered by the University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business for earning a certificate in executive management. Read the Full Story

Centra Summit 2004 – Centra’s Fifth Annual Worldwide User Conference

Titled “Driving Value Through Collaboration,” this special four-day event will examine the issues and ideas that can help your organization effectively optimize a tactical and strategic collaboration, communication and eLearning initiative that will streamline critical business processes and help you find ways to boost the efficiency and effectiveness of your collaborative interactions for continued growth […]

Call For Papers – Learning Technology Newsletter

The newsletter is of non-refereed nature though the articles will be selected and edited by the Guest Editor. IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Learning Technology (TCLT)

Distance Learning Administration 2004

The conference specifically addresses the needs of those who plan, manage, teach and support distance education activities. Sponsored by The State University of West Georgia and The Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration Access Conference Website

Gates: today’s PCs are only a ‘rough draft’

“It’s not yet the machine we envisioned,” Gates told the audience of mostly freshmen and electrical engineering and computer science majors on Feb. 26, after explaining how he had dropped out of Harvard to pursue his dream of placing a personal computer in every home and on every desktop. Read the Full Story

DISTANCE EDUCATION: Improved Data on Program Costs and Guidelines on Quality Assessments Needed to Inform Federal Policy

What GAO FoundWhile federal restrictions on the size of distance education programs affect only a small number of schools’ ability to offer federal student aid, the growing popularity of distance education could cause the number to increase in the future. GAO found that 14 schools were either now adversely affected by the restrictions or would […]