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Date: July 29, 2016 Contact: George Pernsteiner, President, State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (303) 541-1600 gpernsteiner@sheeo.org The State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO) has elected its officers for 2016-2017. Robert Donley, Executive Director for the Iowa Board of Regents, was elected to be chair of the organization’s executive committee effective October 1, 2016. […]
Academia is used to robust debate. But the trolling that happens online should not be tolerated, writes Elaine Campbell Times Higher Education
The idea is to help students of the program understand what legal liability they have in cybersecurity and data privacy, which standards they should hold their companies to, and how they can pre-emptively deal with potential problems ahead of time. Center for Digital Education
In an editorial on Monday, the Wall Street Journal characterized the California Attorney General’s now-concluded investigation into K12 Inc. and the 11 California Virtual Academies as a coordinated ambush targeting K12 and the online charter schools after they dared to resist the California Teachers Association’s unionization campaign. Orange County Register
In Ohio, about 15,000 students are enrolled in an online school system called ECOT. WFJM.com
Although higher education systems in developing countries such as Iran have embraced the online education approach, they are confronted with significant challenges in this transition, one of which is lack of instructors’ participation in online teaching. Therefore, this research is aimed at exploring barriers and influential factors for this lack of participation. The researchers developed […]
Nepali education culture is dominated by face-to-face tutoring. It has a long history starting from the Gurukul culture to the present formal schooling. Emerging practices of using technology in education have been promoting online learning as a form of distance education and gaining popularity. This paper focuses on digging out the contextual reality of open […]
With the development of technology in the 21st Century, education systems attempt to integrate technology-based tools to improve experiences in pedagogy and administration. It is becoming increasingly prominent to build human and ICT infrastructure capacities at universities from policy to implementation level. Using a critical discourse analysis, this study investigates the articulation of ICT capacity building […]
These comments, submitted on behalf of 60 higher education associations and accrediting organizations, expressed serious concern regarding the state authorization regulations in Section 600.9 of the Oct. 29, 2010, final program integrity rule, which significantly expand and complicate the existing federal requirements for institutions to be “legally authorized” in a state. American Council on Education
The U.S. Department of Education today proposed regulations that seek to improve oversight and protect more than 5.5 million distance education students at degree-granting institutions, including nearly 3 million exclusively online students by clarifying the state authorization requirements for postsecondary distance education. U.S. Department of Education
