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Most institutions of postsecondary and higher education are creating or adopting quality statements, standards, and criteria regarding their niche of the “eLearning enterprise.” In doing so, they have a tendency to reinvent the wheel. This article summarizes current published quality standards in the US, and analyzes and organizes them into a nine-cell matrix. It concludes […]
The Office of the Registrar funds the printing of the course schedules with a budget determined by the University administration. About 27,000 course schedules were printed last fall and 26,000 were printed this spring, said Andy Fuertsch, a senior administrative associate in the registrar’s office. Read the Full Article
IBM Business Consulting Services, which designed and operates eArmyU for the Army, also said it has added new academic programs and expanded to 32 the number of participating colleges and universities for 2003. Read the Full Article
“What are teachers doing with laptops and handhelds in math and sc advertisement ience classes? It’s a very simple question, but no one knows,” said Andy Zucker, principal investigator for the Ubiquitous Computing Evaluation Consortium and associate director at SRI International’s Center for Education Policy. Read the Full Article
The fourth-grader learned about fractions, decimals and long division. He asked his teacher when he had questions. He chatted with friends in class. Read the Full Article
The development is part of a radical new approach by Teagasc which regards ongoing training as vital to survival in farming. Read the Full Article
During the 2003 spring semester, only 674 public high school students out of almost 600,000 enrolled took courses from the Illinois Virtual High School. Read the Full Article
The International Conference on Computers in Education 2003 (ICCE 2003) to be held from 2-5 December, 2003 in Hong Kong. The ICCE 2003 is organized by the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) http://www.aace.org Jointly hosted by The Hong Kong Institute of Education, The University of Hong Kong, […]
The blinds are drawn and a jar of salsa (expiration date unknown) holds a prominent place on the bookshelf. And are those cookie crumbs on the desk? Read the Full Article
Distance-Educator.com: Mr. Gossage, online learning has had a dramatic growth in the past few years. How do you distinguish XanEdu from other companies that are offering technology solutions, programs and courses online? Mr. Lew Gossage: XanEdu is a custom content provider for instructors to bring the real world into the classroom. Educators today wish to […]