02/26/2020

After celebrating the Lunar New Year earlier this month, thousands of students at U.S. universities in China have resumed classes. But the campuses are eerily quiet, and classrooms remain empty. That's because classes have moved online in the wake of the coronavirus.

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02/23/2020

The spread of the coronavirus disease known as COVID-19 is a public health emergency with economic and social ramifications in China and across the world. While the impacts on business are well documented, education is also facing the largest disruption in recent memory.
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02/17/2020

The government of India is for the first time allowing universities to offer fully online degrees -- a change that could reshape education delivery in the country while blowing open the door to a previously limited market for U.S.-based online education services companies. Read More...

02/10/2020

Pilot Training Next helped make Air Force ROTC history while pushing the limits of technology and training during their recent partnership with Clarkson University, Jan. 24.

For the first time ever, Air Force ROTC cadets with Detachment 536 at Clarkson University in
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02/05/2020

Like most senior high school students in China, 18-year-old Xu Yuting had planned to resume her studies earlier this year to prepare for upcoming college entrance exams. However, the spread of the new virus from China over the Lunar New Year holiday break has meant the postp
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02/03/2020

Institutions offering open and distance learning in Tanzania are expected to adhere to a new set of rules mapped out in the latest edition of the Handbook for Standards and Guidelines for University Education in Tanzania.

Aimed largely at ensuring the quality
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01/28/2020

"About a quarter of workers at U.S. companies now dial into meetings, consult with clients and do a multitude of other tasks from their laptops at home, as employers seek to cut real estate costs and keep their staffs content in a red-hot job market.

The federa
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01/23/2020

In the wake of rolling education strikes across Ontario, one of the sticking points for high school teachers is mandatory e-learning and many are saying it is not practical or suited for all students.

“A lot of students struggle with (e-learning) … they get frus
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01/17/2020

London School of Business and Finance has announced it is offering all of its online postgraduate students a new way to gain public speaking skills via virtual reality headsets. So far, hundreds of headsets have been sent to students all around the world, including Germany, N
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01/11/2020

The open, distance and e-learning (ODeL) arm of the Pan African University (PAU), which will offer free, accredited online courses to African students, was officially launched in December in Yaoundé, Cameroon, enabling millions of Africans of all ages to benefit from li
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01/07/2020

At its Executive Education Campus in Paris, the world-renowned business school ESSEC has just installed Barco’s weConnect virtual classroom, which will enable them to provide business courses to professionals around the world. The pioneering move by ESSEC reflects the growing need
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01/02/2020

Educators Kathleen Dent and Alli DePuy know how to plug into school classrooms in the most immediate, modern way: via live video conferencing and online virtual learning.

Add some social, wildlife or outdoors lessons, and fun challenges into the mix, and kids are re
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12/28/2019

MANHATTAN — Robots will bring more learning opportunities to rural schools in Kansas, thanks to a national grant to be awarded to the Rural Education Center in the Kansas State University College of Education.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announc
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12/20/2019

PHOENIX - Michael A. Maroun Elementary kindergartners recently put their reading, writing and communications skills to the test during a videoconference with students in Ohio.

The distance learning connection, facilitated through CiTi BOCES, paired students in Pat Mc
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12/14/2019

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue was in southwest Iowa on Thursday afternoon to announce more than $6.4 million in grants and loans to expand broadband service in rural Iowa.

Stanton-based Farmers Mutual Telephone Company has a goal of 100-percent fiber optic covera
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12/11/2019

The proportion of all enrolled college students who took at least one online class continues to rise, edging up to 34.7 percent in fall 2018 from 33.1 percent the previous year. The rate of increase appears to be slowing ever so slightly, although online education remains th
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12/06/2019

Mid-America Christian University has been awarded a $242,714 grant by the United States Department of Agriculture to benefit STEM education in three rural Oklahoma school districts.

The grant is a part of the MACU’s Access to Online Math an
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11/27/2019

MEXICO — The Center for Instruction, Technology & Innovation (CiTi), also known as Oswego County BOCES, has been awarded a USDA Rural Utilities Service (RUS) grant.

The RUS grant for distance learning provides the opportunity to incorporate interactive videoconfer
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11/21/2019

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a grant of $354,653 on Wednesday to the Fremont County Economic Development Corporation, one of many made through the Distance Learning and Telemedicine program.

“Distance learning and telemedicine make it easier f
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11/17/2019

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) announced today the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of Rural Development (RD) awarded grants totaling $604,841 for two distance learning and telemedicine projects in North Dakota.

The Southeast Region Career an
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11/07/2019

Regulating universities that operate across state lines is contentious and complicated. So it was considered a remarkable achievement when a panel of negotiators selected by the U.S. Department of Education reached consensus on new distance education rules earlier this year
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11/01/2019

Mississippi State Online is celebrating student successes, as well as the achievements and growth of its online education programs during National Distance Learning Week today through Nov. 8.

“National Distance Learning Week is an opportunity to celebrate our on
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2019/10/29

The distance learning market size is expected to post a CAGR of over 9% during the period 2019-2023, according to the latest market research report by Technavio.

The increasing number of distance learning enrolments for higher education is o
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2019/10/23

The Department of Education published its final state authorization for distance education regulations in the Federal Register, available here. The rule draws on the 2016 version of the state authorization regulations, ordered into effect by a federal court decision in May of
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10/19/2019

Every student from the 6th through 11th grade can register on the distance learning platform and participate in the EcoSchool project.

The objective of the EcoSchool project is to bring together the youth around ecological values, promote an environmentally friendly lifestyle
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10/12/2019

The California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office awarded Santa Rosa Junior College $460,000 to expand online pathways for career and technical education and to help create more  fully-online courses and certificates.

During the 2017-18 academic year, 32% of all SRJC students to
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10/05/2019

Park Rapids Area Schools are having their first distance learning day on Thursday, Oct. 17.

A distance learning day, similar to an e-learning day, is an opportunity for students to work on class assignments from home, rather than coming into the school. The difference between them i
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09/30/2019

London School of Business and Finance held a graduation ceremony in London for its distance learning students on 20 September, bringing together students from countries including Slovakia, India, South Africa, Morocco, Italy, Brazil, and Malaysia among others.

The ceremony was
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09/25/2019

This month's episode of the Pulse podcast features a panel discussion of entrepreneurs sharing their stories of bringing learning technologies to market.

This month's episode of the Pulse podcast features a panel discussion of entrepreneurs sharing their stories of bringing learni
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09/20/2019

The ongoing efforts to boost the Contra Costa Community College District’s effectiveness in its use of online education continues this semester as online courses grow in number and professors are trained to teach students online.

Distance education, according to Title 5 of the
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