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The “Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines,” released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), can help educators and others design their own web sites based on proven research about what works–and what doesn’t–to ensure the greatest use among stakeholders. For example, are school web site designers using the best fonts, download […]
Working to make access to education easier for corporations and employees, Edcor, the nation’s leading provider of outsourced tuition reimbursement and Capella University, an accredited online university entered a partnership in July 2003.Read the Full Story
The program will allow Wal-Mart employees in the nation to pursue two-year and four-year degrees, with NWACC serving as the early provider in the initiative.Read the Full Story
The Common Services for Borrowers five-year contract — which has five one-year options that could bring the total value to more than $2.3 billion — is for developing a single system to handle the department’s direct loan servicing functions, loan consolidation processes and collection activities for $96 billion in student loan obligations. Those functions are […]
Prospective students will soon be able to visit a new website that features feedback from students who attend different colleges.Read the Full Story
The Fudan New English learning solution has been built up through a partnership between Shanghai Broadband Network, Shanghai Online Education Center of Shanghai Telecom and the Distance Education College of Fudan University, one of the top universities in China.Read the Full Story
Nichols said a virtual tour of Arizona State University saved him the airfare it would have cost to fly to Tempe to see the school.Read the Full Story
Speaking at a workshop on writing of study materials for CDLCE in Gwagwalada on Tuesday, the vice-chancellor of the institution, Professor Laraba Abdullahi, said the decision was to bring education closer to the populace.Read the Full Story
This study first identifies major types of online facilitation that students requested in a web-based course. Then this study inspects whether students with different characteristics requested different types of online facilitation. Finally this study examines whether the amount of message requesting online facilitation is associated with learning achievement.Read the Full Story
Called THCI’s Online Learning Campus, the integrated teaching and learning system has been adopted by leading departments at Jefferson Medical College/Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston, among others. Read the Full Story