Distance Learning Programs Revolutionizing Education
Idea Group Publishing: Is distance education really a feasible alternative to traditional classroom instruction?Read the Full Story
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Sun never seems to set on Apollo Group
Sales charts as steep as a young Microsoft.A Dell-like business model that rocked an industry.Read the Full Story
Online degrees grow in stature, popularity
With three kids at home and a full-time job in Inkster, Conja Wright has little time to work on an advanced degree.Read the Full Story
Helping disabled people Technology access center assists individuals through job skills-building program
Until then, Lundy, 30, continues to work on his job and literacy skills at East Tennessee Technology Access Center. Read the Full Story
FCC Targets Copying of Digital TV
A rule being considered by the Federal Communications Commission is one of a series of proposals pushed by the entertainment industry to help thwart copying and online trading of movies and television shows that increasingly are being broadcast in digital form with high-quality picture and sound. Read the Full Story
Budget crunch forces schools to reconsider laptop program
Called Freedom to Learn, the one-to-one computing initiative is seen by many as the next step toward putting a laptop into the hands of every K-12 student throughout the state.Read the Full Story
Digging for Nuggets of Wisdom
Medline, the database that already houses more than 10 million abstracts for journal articles, is adding 7,000 to 8,000 abstracts per week. Only a fraction of these are about cancer, but the volume of information is daunting nonetheless.Read the Full Story
Virtual High School Standardizes on Blackboard K-12 Solutions
Washington, D.C. – October 16, 2003 – Blackboard Inc., a leading enterprise software and services company for e-Education, has been selected to provide a new e-learning platform for Virtual High School (VHS), a nationally recognized leader within the growing K-12 virtual school community.Virtual High School has committed to using the Blackboard Learning System, Blackboard Portal […]
Intrepid Learning Solutions and Boeing Expand Relationship
(Seattle, October 16, 2003)— Intrepid Learning Solutions, a leading innovator in managed training solutions, has been awarded a significant expansion of its training services relationship with The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA).Boeing, the world’s largest aerospace corporation, has awarded a five-year, multi-million dollar contract to Intrepid to deliver Safety, Health and Environmental Awareness training to Boeing […]
Teaching Courses Online: How Much Time Does It Take?
This longitudinal case study, presented at the Seventh Annual Sloan-C International Conference on ALN, examined the amount of time needed to teach three asynchronous online courses at The University of Michigan-Dearborn from Winter 1999 through Winter 2000.Read the Full Story