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Saba’s chapter, “Distance Education Theory, Methodology, and Epistemology: A Pragmatic Paradigm,” was selected to lead the Handbook as it sets the tone for the rest of the volume. In this chapter, he presents the case for a paradigm of distance education that is uniquely American as it is grounded in the pragmatic school of philosophy, […]
The school districts will get “state-of-the-art” equipment for the first time that will open the door to new courses for students, training for teachers, and conference sessions for parents and teachers. Read the Full Story
LYNNFIELD, Mass, Nov. 3, 2003 – WebCT, maker of the world’s most flexible and widely used higher education e-learning solutions, today bolstered its position as the leading supplier of e-learning systems to higher education consortia with the addition of two new customers in the United States and Europe.The Swiss Virtual Campus and the Appalachian College […]
DENVER – November 3, 2003 – eCollege(SM) [Nasdaq: ECLG], a leading provider of outsource eLearning solutions for online post-secondary education programs, today announced it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Datamark, Inc., the nation’s leading outsource provider of integrated enrollment marketing services to the proprietary post-secondary school market.“Our customers are telling us they have […]
Ms Bligh was announcing the end of the era of radio classes next month for three distance education schools that will begin telephone and internet classes.Read the Full Story
The Department of Distance Education has given students the option to get recorded lectures on the subject. Not just this, from the next session, the department would come out with CDs on all subjects.Read the Full Story
Previously, ZOU students have graduated in conjunction with those from the University of Zimbabwe.Read the Full Story
GeoLearning, Inc., the largest Application Service Provider (ASP) of enterprise learning management systems and e-learning content, announced today that year-to-date revenues for the nine months ended September 30, 2003 increased 92% over the same period in 2002. The company has also achieved a net profit margin of 11% through the first three quarters of 2003.GeoLearning […]
ARLINGTON, Va., Nov. 3 — Plateau Systems, the leading provider of enterprise learning management systems (LMS), announced today that it has once again been placed in the leader quadrant in the updated 2003 Gartner’s e-Learning LMS Magic Quadrant — a comprehensive analysis that is considered a main barometer of the industry.Gartner Inc., an influential technology […]
Eighty-six experimental and quasi-experimental studies met the established inclusion criteria for the meta-analysis (including data from over 15,000 participating students), and provided effect sizes, clearly demonstrating that: (1) in two thirds of the cases, students taking courses by distance education outperformed their student counterparts enrolled in traditionally instructed courses; (2) the overall effect size d+ […]