01/03/2011

The Open University is today celebrating the 40th anniversary of the broadcast of its first educational lecture on BBC television. Since the ground-breaking transmission aired on BBC Two on January 3rd 1971 there have been more than 7,000 television and 4,000 radio transmissions as part of the
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12/17/2010

Should universities be suspicious of software giants bearing gifts?

Duke University has announced that it's adopting Cisco's Quad enterprise collaboration platform for use by its executive MBA students. The software offers some cool features like automatic transcription, enhanced search, and a
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12/13/2010

On the return trip from a recent visit to South Africa, Donald Rallis missed a connecting flight to Washington, D.C., yet still managed to teach his classes - from a hotel room at London’s Heathrow Airport. On picture: Donald Rallis in South Africa

The associate professor of geography is no stran
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11/10/2010

Will colleges and universities buy online courses designed to train the instructors who teach online courses? Pearson, the education and media conglomerate, is betting on it. The company will announce today a plan to sell courses aimed at preparing professors to teach online.

As more
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11/08/2010

In what would be an unusual public-private partnership, Thunderbird School of Global Management seeks private capital to help it launch a new online executive-education program

Online education has been gathering momentum for some time. Enrollment in for-profit degree programs is growing, a
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11/04/2010

Keith Melvin, a disabled and decorated Iraq War veteran, wanted to go to a traditional college until a recruiter for the online, for-profit Kaplan University began courting him. She assured him, he said, that he could trust Kaplan because it's owned by Washington Post Co. (Read More...

10/21/2010

Military Education Benefits and Online Learning PERFECT Together

We just spent some time poking around a terrific Website for veterans and current members of the armed services. It’s Military.Com, and it’s jam-packed with practical articles and forums for current
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10/17/2010

Winneba (C/R) Oct. 17 GNA - The University of Education, Winneba, (UEW) has opened five new Distance Learning Centres at Sogokope, Obuasi, Techiman, Assin Foso and Tarkwa to enhance the programme.

This brings to 18 the number of study centres opened by the university nation wide.

Th
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09/01/2010

JOSE FERREIRA is the CEO and founder of Knewton, an online learning start-up which offers customised preparatory courses for standardised tests such as the SATs, GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test), or LSAT (Law School Admissions Test). To broaden its appeal, the company has recently teamed up
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08/12/2010

“Place-based” colleges are losing importance. Internet learning is posed for remarkable growth. Those are the views that Bill Gates expressed on August 9th when he spoke at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe. You can read about his talk in a recent article in The Chronicle of High
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08/03/2010

If you’re a distance learner with a smartphone, you just got smarter. Here are some cool new apps that can make you a better student.

Bing – Microsoft’s attempt to beat Google in the “know anything anywhere” wars, Bing is ultra-useful for finding info on just about a
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07/26/2010

Please take a moment to visit DropOutNation.net, a website launched in 2005 by journalist RiShawn Biddle. You’ll find your visit informative, troubling – but inspiring too, because Biddle is doing remarkable things to keep young Americans from dropping out of high school. 

Here are
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06/27/2010

“Do you really think that in 20 years, somebody is going to put on their backpack, drive a half hour to the University of Minnesota from the suburbs, haul their Keister across campus, and listen to some boring person drone on about Econ 101 or . . . is there another way to deliver the service other tha
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06/17/2010

In what could be the biggest educational give-away in history, a growing number of colleges and universities are making their course content available for free online. If you poke around the Internet, here is some of the free content you will discover .  . . 

The Massachusetts Instit
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06/10/2010

Hopes were high last fall when the Amazon (AMZN) Kindle DX was distributed to a group of students at seven universities around the country in a classroom pilot program for the electronic reader. With students able to download class materials and textbooks easily onto the slender 10.2-ounce device, many
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05/26/2010

There’s no need to take a break from your online college studies this summer, even if you’re kayaking through the Everglades or trekking the Sierra Madres. All you need is some kind of broadband access and one of these ultra-rugged laptops that are designed to take any kind of beating that you
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05/05/2010 

Are you thinking of taking college courses online? If so, you already know that online study is a time-efficient, cost-effective way to earn college credits. But how can you be sure that the credits you earn will be accepted if you decide to continue your studies in a degree-granting institution?

04/20/2010

Remote areas still need nurses – but how can they do their training? The Open University provides a way. Campbeltown, at the bottom of the Mull of Kintyre, is a very long way from most places. Around two and a half hours' drive from Glasgow, it's the nearest place providing nur
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02/01/2010

Distance learning has taken on a whole new meaning at Madison College-Watertown campus. A new technology is allowing teachers and students over 30 miles away seem as though they're physically in the same room.

On picture: Students at Madison College-W
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01/31/2010

IOWA CITY — Enrollment in Web and on-site courses at locations off campus continue to dwarf Iowa Communications Network numbers in distance education at the University of Iowa and Iowa State University.

At the University of Northern Iowa, however, the ICN continues to be a popular dist
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01/18/2010

THE University of Zimbabwe has introduced a new online distance learning facility to enhance the training of high level manpower at affordable rates. The learning facility, which has state-of-the-art machinery worth over US$100 000, was acquired with the assistance of the African Development Bank and Afr
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01/05/2010

A shortage of medical specialists for cancer treatment in developing countries is a driving force behind a new web-based educational course that could help change the health-care picture over time. The course - in the speciality of radiation oncology - is being spearheaded in the Asia and Pacific region th
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12/23/2009

Cape Coast, Dec. 23, GNA - The University of Cape Coast (UCC's) Distance Learning Programme has admitted 7,444 students, the highest since its inception nine year ago, for the 2009/2010 academic year. The students, who were selected from over 10,000 applications, would undertake various d
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10/23/2009

In what some believe could be a landmark case in state oversight of online colleges, the Maryland Higher Education Commission this week barred the University of Maryland University College from offering an online doctoral program in community college administration to state residents, citing rules again
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 06/29/2009

WASHINGTON -- Community colleges and high schools would receive federal funds to create free, online courses in a program that is in the final stages of being drafted by the Obama administration.

The program is part of a series of efforts to help community colleges reach more stud
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06/19/2009

Isolation can be a major challenge for students following distance MA Tesol courses, but universities in the UK are harnessing online communication tools that help participants to work collaboratively and develop a sense of group solidarity.

It might not be social networki
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05/14/2009

Epsilen, the online education company of is today naming Jim Bowler as chief executive officer. Bowler joined Epsilen in January as an executive consultant working with the company’s board of directors. Prior to joining Epsilen, he was chief executive officer and president of two online entities: Cl
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01/26/2009

In the middle of a class on retail and trade accounting, Ayyalusamy Kanagaraj pauses to quiz a student about gross sales and closing book inventory. Mr Kanagaraj is teaching this class from the elite Indian Institute of Management in Indore,
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12/13/2008

If you want to see the world and gain qualifications, why not study while you travel, says Julie Ferry. A typical day for Jannie Armstrong starts with a short walk to work. Nothing remarkable there, but his walk is through the streets of Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. His office? The
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10/30/2008

Rather than succumb to the national trends affecting college access, North Carolina decided to reverse them. Stung by declines in manufacturing, textiles and tobacco but emboldened by the possibilities of newer, skills-based industries in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, the state tried a novel approach
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