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To help folks understand this important – and still controversial – branch of development policy, the University of Washington and the United Nations have joined forces to teach a distance learning course on microfinance. The course, Microfinance Principles and Practices, started this spring quarter, drawing enrollments from as far as Europe and Africa. It relies […]
Hundreds of first-graders in rural Mississippi have learned to read in recent years, thanks in part to award-winning public television programs and a host of enticing books and toys like Leona Bean Bag. Read the Full Article
March 31, 2003 – National Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE:NSM) today launched Analog University, the industry’s first online educational resources devoted entirely to analog semiconductor technologies.Read the Full Article
He felt that he should either get more students out to the polls, or get the polls out to the students. Read the Full Article
We are working closely with and are contributing to the OKI reference architecture, and are collaborating with other groups interested in open source collaboration standards. Communities targeted for CHEF use include those involved in the scholarly activities of teaching, learning and research at the University of Michigan, and their students and colleagues involved in teaching, […]
The Kabul University student hopes she is part of a new beginning in war-ravaged Afghanistan, where less than two years ago a young woman like her would hardly have been let out of her house, let alone into a classroom to study information technology. Read the Full Article
The rapid increase in the use of computer technology to facilitate alternative forms of educational delivery, often called distance education (DE), represents a major change taking place in education. The potential for decoupling the traditional requirements that student and teacher be present in the same room at the same time has never been greater.Read the […]
A leading “virtual university” in the United States has been awarded for preaching what it practices. University of Maryland University College (UMUC), headquartered in Adelphi, Md., with a cyber reach that extends far beyond the nation’s capital or any of the university’s traditional classrooms in 29 countries, has been awarded for its Master of Distance […]
(East Valley) — One of the nation’s top 20 community college students is a dynamic Rio Salado (Tempe) scholar and aspiring economist who has never stepped foot inside a formal classroom in his life. Mesa resident Christopher Burton, 19, has taken his college courses primarily through e-learning while running two Internet-based businesses and serving as […]
FDU will extend a number of master’s level courses to area residents, including one or two in hospitality management and the “complete gamut” in public administration. These courses will be taught through distance learning over the Internet. Read the Full Article