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Stevens Institute of Technology’s online university, WebCampus.Stevens, has won the nation’s top award for best “Institution-Wide Online Teaching and Learning Programming.” The award was announced Oct. 14th by the Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C), a prestigious group of learning institutions funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Read the Full Story
Kumcu will oversee the new Global Media Network, an interactive distance education system that allows students and faculty around the world to interact in real time for classes, seminars and meetings.Read the Full Story
FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine adopted a high-performance organization approach to teach its scientists and other employees collaboration skills to complement their scientific know-how, said Melissa Starinsky, acting director of the CVM Staff College.Read the Full Story
“Live Assistance Reference Chat” and “Anywhere/Anytime Library” are two virtual services that streamline what learners were already doing, saving valuable time especially for nontraditional students with jobs, families and other responsibilities. Read the Full Story
By the time they graduate in May, the six will have earned eight hours of college credit in chemistry without ever having to set foot on a college campus.Read the Full Story
Element K, which is already active in Saudi Arabia and the UAE offering online courses in desktop computing, information technology and business and professional development, foresees a dramatic increase in demand for virtual courses in the region, driven by a robust growth in IT penetration and booming economies. Read the Full Story
Ball State’s weather station has been upgraded, adding an automated weather monitoring system that updates every five minutes.Read the Full Story
Teachers and administrators will be able to have conferences with their peers and academics anywhere in the world.Read the Full Story
The community program, named Unlimited Potential (UP), aims at expanding the reach of technology education to the region’s most deprived people. Read the Full Story
This article reviews the relevant literature on distance education and discusses differences between providing cyber-services and creating virtual communities for these students…. Read the Full Story