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Speaking at the launch function organised at the IJC’s new office at K.B. Dasan Road, Teynampet, Mr. Kikuchi said he had no doubt that India could progress well “economically and industrially” and the Japanese language distance education programme would further the cordial bilateral and economic ties. Read the Full Article
He made the remark during an inspection tour in the southwestern province of Guizhou, where rural areas lack adequate educational facilities.Read the Full Article
This article presents an overview of the instructional models of Gagne, Briggs, and Wager (1992) and Laurillard (1993, 2002), followed by student evaluations from the first year of an online public health core curriculum. Both online courses and their evaluations were developed in accordance with the two models of instruction. Read the Full Article
Jacksonville and New Summerfield ISDs – as part of the SUPERnet Consortium – were recently awarded a $900,000 Technology Applications Readiness Grant for Empowering Texas (TARGET) through the Texas Education Agency to begin the first year of SUPERnet’s online course program.Read the Full Article
SAN DIEGO, April 15 /PRNewswire/ — Lightspan, a leading provider of high- quality educational products and services used in schools and homes to help increase academic achievement, announced today results of a new evaluation that demonstrates significant positive student achievement tied to the systematic use of data-driven decision-making, of which Lightspan eduTest Assessment was a […]
Because of the significance of the content at this conference, and to overcome challenges associated with travel, CVC has expanded the conference delivery to enable attendance via the internet from any location in the world. The CVC Electronic Conference delivery format will be in the form of streaming video synched to PowerPoint or web content […]
The project, named Avicenna Virtual Campus (after the Latin name for the medieval Persian philosopher-scientist, Ibn Sina), has attracted €3.7 million in funding from the European Commission’s EUMEDIS (Euro-Mediterranean Information Society) programme and €920,000 from partners including UNESCO, which is the project’s principal co-ordinator. Read the Full Article
It is promising a “world class virtual education for Syrian and Arab students at home.” Read the Full Article
“There are plans for the beefing up of our distance education, and the west is certainly in our plans,” Rex Nettleford, UWI vice-chancellor, remarked recently, adding that “we must fight the tyranny of distance”. Read the Full Article
The Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW) have made the process of obtaining an education without regard to time or location easier for the student. At the same time, they have provided more challenges for the colleges providing this education. Administrators, faculty, staff, and students realize that in order to successfully implement ODL, their […]