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eCollege’s Online Course Assessment Helps Schools Achieve Consistent Quality

DENVER – April 23, 2003 – eCollege(SM) [Nasdaq: ECLG], a leading provider of technology and services for online higher education programs, is helping institutions achieve consistent quality across their online programs through a unique course assessment process. eCollege’s Online Course Assessment serves as a critical component of an online program by empowering institutions to evaluate […]

War college may be scaled back

That is retired Army Col. Zane Finkelstein’s assessment of Advanced Distributed Learning, a Department of Defense initiative being reviewed by the General Accounting Office.Read the Full Article

Help is at hand for home schooling families

Wendy Burr wants to help home schooling parents and their children achieve educational success.Read the Full Article

Determining the Cost of Online Courses

Before an institution of higher education ventures into online education, a complete understanding of the costs that will be encountered is essential. Even though there are dozens of methods of delivering courses through distance education, the offering of online courses through the World Wide Web has existed for less than a decade. Because of this […]

Costs of Developing and Delivering a Web-Based Instruction Course©

Abstract: The Internet: Communicating, Accessing & Providing Information is a University of Alberta credit course which is delivered completely over the Internet. This paper: 1) discusses the primary development and delivery phases of this course, while also providing a general account of the time spent on each of the phases, 2) compares the costs of […]

Firm’s Survey of College-Bound Students Finds No Digital Divide Among Them

But the researchers think the gap probably still exists among students who are not headed for college. Read the Full Article

The Ninth Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALN)

The University of Central Florida in collaboration with the Sloan Foundation, Pennsylvania State University, SCOLE, and American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC) invite you to submit a proposal that reflects implications for the field of specific online learning experiences and practices. Last year’s conference welcomed over 500 college level faculty and administrators, instructional technology professionals and […]

A virtual high school in Lebanon [CT]

Lyman would be required to pay a $10,000 fee and provide two of its own faculty members to teach courses for the Virtual High School.Read the Full Article

Vital to Make Most of New Technology

The University of SA (Unisa) pioneered distance education in SA in 1946 and was the first institution in the world to teach exclusively by this method.Read the Full Article

Influence Of Non-Moderated And Moderated Discussion Sites On Student Success

One of the most successful applications of networked technology in education has been the development of individualized homework assignments. Such assignments provide immediate feedback to students and discourage copying. However, networked technology also allows students to develop sophisticated schemes designed to beat the system. This paper, supported in part by Andrew W. Mellon and Alfred […]