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Satisfaction of college students with the digital learning environment: Do learners’ temperaments make a difference?

Undergraduate students enrolled in courses that incorporate Web-based modules were surveyed to assess their satisfaction with learning in a digital instructional environment, with the goal of identifying learners’ temperaments as possible predictors of satisfaction. Read the Full Story

Content Delivery for a Virtual High School

In the fall of 2002, Visions In Education, a charter school for home-schooled and independent-study children, opened Visions High School Academy (http://www.visions%20academy.org/), a virtual project-based high school. Read the Full Story

LearningTimes Opens Nominations for 2003 Library Awards

About LearningTimes, LLC The LearningTimes LLC, designs and produces online learning communities, programs, and events, and provides the platforms, applications and promotional expertise that make them successful. LearningTimes focuses on serving groups with an education-oriented mission, including: libraries, cultural and educational institutions, non-profit organizations, associations, and membership groups that benefit from an array of human […]

Why I Homeschool My Child

We now have about 130 members in North Carolina and over 200 families in the national organization. Read the Full Story

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) aid for Open University

The Secretary to the Treasury, Charita Ratwatte and ADB’s Country Director in Sri Lanka, John R. Cooney signed the agreement. Read the Full Story

What Types of Online Facilitation Do Students Need?

This study first identifies major types of online facilitation that students requested in a web-based course. Then this study inspects whether students with different characteristics requested different types of online facilitation. Finally this study examines whether the amount of message requesting online facilitation is associated with earning achievement.Read the Full Story

Commission wants to close loophole governing Internet college

The American Public University System moved its headquarters to Charles Town from Manassas, Va., last year after failing to gain regional accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. In West Virginia, colleges and universities are accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Read the Full Story

Home for school

“It was hard to pay attention,” he said. “I really wasn’t learning anything — a lot of distractions.” Read the Full Story

The Marine Corps College of Continuing Education

The Expeditionary Warfare School, formerly known as the Amphibious Warfare School, and Command and Staff College seminar programs are scheduled to begin at Camp Pendleton in October, said Jeffrey R. Willis, Camp Pendleton’s regional coordinator.Read the Full Story

Microsoft’s Big Role on Campus

At a celebration to kick off the collaboration, students and faculty members heckled the speakers, insisting the computer company’s software wasn’t worthy of use or study at MIT. Read the Full Story