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Five Truths About Tuition

Can anything besides an act of God stop the rise of college tuition? … For the last several months on Capitol Hill, the higher-education establishment has been on the defensive over the question — and at times things have gotten very testy.Read the Full Story

Don’t leave home to learn it

For the past seven and a half years, the Moses Lake couple has been doing something that takes a great deal of inner strength, patience and acceptance — they’ve opened up their home to over 70 babies from state foster care.Read the Full Story

Yale links with China’s Fudan University in distance learning, biomedical research

The Fudan-Yale Center for Education Cooperation will host lectures by renowned scholars and arrange exchanges of teachers and students from the two schools, Xinhua said.Read the Full Story

New WebCT ‘PowerLink’ and ‘Blackboard Building Block’ in Association with ICDC and Sentient Learning

ICDC is at the forefront of digital content development. Part of Liverpool John Moores University, it aims to empower organisations using digital technology, enabling them to create groundbreaking, innovative content. ICDC works with the world’s leading names in new media and digital technology on a programme of education, research and business support initiatives.With the exceptional […]

Learning from Reflections – Issues in Building Quality Online Courses

This article supports that position with reflections of an adjunct professor, who implemented a doctoral level course, Instruction Delivery Systems, during 2001 at Nova Southeastern University that had been authored by another professor in the School of Computer and Information Sciences. It contains student reflections on their experiences developing and implementing online mini-courses, which was […]

E-Learning Pieces: The End-Learner Experience

They will have to integrate different content and different management systems, and manage the experience of a vast diversity of end-learners. Here is a summary of end-learner experience issues:Read the Full Story

The open code market

Any computer user will have often experienced many times to have a new software application, an extra feature in their favourite computer programme, or to have programmes behave in a different way. For users without extensive programming skills, this can be very frustrating.Read the Full Story

Unhappy in Class, More Are Learning at Home

The Kjellberg twins, Caroline and Jessica, were in a highly regarded public school until two years ago. But they were bullied, their mother said, and referred to psychiatrists when, miserable, they misbehaved in class. So Ms. Kjellberg, neither a hippie nor a fundamentalist, decided to educate them at home.Read the Full Story

Mass. Reviewing Official’s Online Degree

Ralph Timperi had been signing e-mails in recent weeks with a notation indicating he held a doctorate awarded in September by online Trinity Southern University. But he said he has since renounced the degree. Read the Full Story

Distance education extended to train rural cadres

As an effective way to train millions of Chinese rural cadres, distance education should be extended all over the country after testing, a senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) said in Guiyang Wednesday. Read the Full Story