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New Research to Put University Learning Outcomes in the Spotlight

The university’s Centre for Higher Education Research and Information (CHERI) will work with other academic partners during the four-year research programme, which will begin in 2004. The research will investigate the effects of the learning context on the outcomes of university learning. In so doing, it will explore the conceptions of learning that underlie the […]

Rural schools look to online courses

Alaska Online, a consortium of nine school districts, has been offering a pilot program of 21 courses for high school students for a year and will start officially this fall. Read the Full Article

Directions in Electronic Portfolio Development

The analysis assumes that the goal of electronic portfolios is to stay focused on the quality of work by a learner and the valid alignment of their work to the standards and goals of education. A comparison of the “best of all worlds” scenarios for both approaches shows that the two approaches each have important […]

Online education chief defends $218,500 pay

Michigan Virtual University President David Spencer will be paid $218,500 for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30. That’s $41,500 more than Granholm.Read the Full Article

Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik opens Virtual University

The GVU is a world wide network between universities all over the globe, which has been established by the UN University.Read the Full Article

Embanet forms e-Learning alliance with CyberLearning Labs

Toronto, Canada and Indianapolis, Ind. – June 24, 2003 – Programs struggling with budget cuts and the challenge of a positive return on investment for online courses now have an option that teams CyberLearning Labs’ ANGEL enterprise course management system with Embanet’s fully hosted, 24/7 live technical support solution. The fully integrated, enterprise e-Learning solution […]

Missouri Distance Learning Association Third Annual Conference

See the Conference Announcement (PDF Format).

Third Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF)

PAN-COMMONWEALTH FORUM ON OPEN LEARNING COL’s third (biennial) Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF) will be held in Dunedin, New Zealand, from 4 – 8 July 2004, hosted by the Distance Education Association of New Zealand (DEANZ, www.deanz.org.nz) in collaboration with the Federation of Commonwealth Open and Distance Learning Associations (FOCODLA, http://www.col.org/focodla The conference theme […]

Catching up on education, via web

Officials of the e-TQM College, based in Dubai Internet City (DIC), yesterday said its customised e-learning approach caters to the basic and advanced learners ensuring quality. Read the Full Article

A Ruling in Need of Filtering

Rejecting the First Amendment arguments offered by civil libertarians and the association representing the nation’s librarians, the Supreme Court yesterday ruled that the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is constitutional. Read the Full Article