Higher costs for higher education
(CNN) — It’s the new joke on campus: No wonder they call it “higher” education — tuition is sharply higher this year at state colleges and universities across the United States. Read the Full Story
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MIT for free, virtually
One year after the launch of its pilot program, MIT on Monday quietly published everything from class syllabuses to lecture videos for 500 courses through its OpenCourseWare initiative, an ambitious project it hopes will spark a Web-based revolution in the way universities share information.Read the Full Story
Exclusive Interview with Dr. Thomas C. Reeves, Author of “Interactive Learning Systems Evaluation”
Dr. Saba: What prompted you to write a book about evaluation?Dr. Reeves: While I was in the Ph.D. program in the Area of Instructional Technology at Syracuse University back in the 1970s, I was very fortunate to study evaluation with Dr. Edward F. Kelly, who was the Director of Evaluation for the Center for Instructional […]
MIT Publishes 500th Course On OpencourseWare
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. (September 30, 2003) – MIT announced today that the OpenCourseWare initiative has published its 500th course and now offers free and open access to the educational materials from all 33 of MIT’s academic disciplines and all five of its schools. This milestone represents a significant technical and organizational achievement, the first on the […]
Illinois Compass points learning to one place online
Students and faculty will be able to turn to one service for quizzing, grades, paperwork, announcements, assignments and discussion. Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services officials plan to introduce Illinois Compass this spring with complete release in fall 2004.Read the Full Story
Students clicking for classes
But you won’t find Lindsey in the halls of Riverview High. She takes all her classes online. Read the Full Story
Subject Title: State University of New York – Teaching, Learning and Technology
The online courses of the TLT Cooperative provide convenient opportunities for faculty and instructional support staff to learn about topics such as creating and delivering multimedia-enhanced courses, creating hybrid and complete online courses, online assessment strategies, web-based animation and simulation, detecting and preventing plagiarism, reusable learning objects, and issues in digital copyright. The fee for […]
Peterson’s Wins Gold Excellence in E-Learning Award for Innovative Technology with Its Online SAT Course
The award was announced during a ceremony and dinner held on Tuesday, September 23, 2003 in Los Angeles, as part of the Online Learning 2003 Conference & Expo, held September 23-25. A complete list of winners in all categories is available at http://www.brandon-hall.com/. Read the Full Story
The Boeing Company chooses VTN Technologies Inc.’s Olé Online Learning Environment LMS/LCMS platform
We did a thorough evaluation of the top LMS/LCMS systems available, and decided that Olé was the best system for our needs” said James A. Ferrara, F/A-18 Training Systems Integrator, Boeing Training Systems Management, St. Louis, MO. Read the Full Story
Back to School With Loaded Bags
According to him, the university would make education openly ,accessible, affordable and equitable to all Nigerians. Jegede said although open and distance learning had been in existence in Nigeria since early 1940, it had never given both the full-time and part-time students the opportunity of paying equal fees.Read the Full Story