11/11/2011
 Free lunches for undernourished pupils, distance learning and subsidies for poor families are helping to keep children in school. Distance learning, free school meals and child-centred learning techniques in the Philippines are pushing the country closer to the goal of universal primary education.<
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11/07/2011
 Despite the brevity, the admissions committee could learn a lot from the applicants’ tweets, says Fine. “It helps them boil down their main selling points,” she adds. And MBA candidates could add links to separate Web pages, videos, and blogs that would inform the school even more about the pers
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11/04/2011
 WASHINGTON -- Among the many new program integrity rules the U.S. Education Department issued a little over a year ago was one that went relatively unnoticed at the time: a rule that defines the “last date of attendance” for students who withdraw from online programs more stringently than in t
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10/25/2011
 EduCause is the annual Woodstock of higher education. With a particular emphasis on “the intelligent use of information technology” in the robust arena of online education. Over 5.6 million people enrolled in at least one online course in 2009, according to the 2010 Sloan Survey of Online Learning
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10/21/2011
 WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Oct. 17, 2011) -- Soldiers can now earn up to 16 promotion points for completing language instruction with the Headstart2 language training program.
The Headstart2 software uses digitally animated characters involved in military scenarios to teach reading, writing,
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10/18/2011
 Britain has the highest demand for online learning in the whole of Europe, according to one online resource. The e-learningcentre.co.uk, an information provider for those interested in learning online and members of the industry, suggested that the popularity of the UK's e-learning sector tops the mar
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10/13/2011
 Online learning company Knewton wants to bring new technology to an industry that is often slow to make changes: education. Knewton has raised $33 million in Series D financing led by Founders Fund and strategic investor Pearson. Existing investors also participated including Accel Partners, Bessemer
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09/14/2011
 The accrediting commission responsible for accrediting schools that offer degrees in the western United States recently revised its policy regarding distance education and correspondence. The policy revision reflects changes to federal regulatory requirements and the policy document includes best pr
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06/29/2011
 MIAMI — Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness says distance learning will be the choice of many more students to achieve tertiary level education in the future. On picture: Education Minister, Hon. Andrew Holness (fourth right), with Caribbean graduates of the distance learning programme
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06/28/2011
 Professors are building new software to simplify lecture recording, host course material online, spark discussion among students and teachers and share Stanford courses. Others are testing these new tools in the classroom.
BY MELISSAE FELLET
Several Stanford faculty members are working tog
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06/24/2011
 GERMANY, BERLIN. Students can apply now for the Distance Learning Programme "MBA Renewables". In October 2011 the Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin, in cooperation with the Renewables Academy AG (RENAC), will start a new Master of Business Administration (MBA). The “MBA Renewables” will b
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06/09/2011
 SUNY Empire State College Graduates More Than 3,000 Across New York State
(SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – June 6, 2011) – SUNY Empire State College’s Center for Distance Learning will recognize 970 candidates at its graduation ceremony at 3 p.m. Saturday, June 11, at the Saratoga Springs City Cente
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05/17/2011
 Angola, Luanda. The Angolan Government has been working for the implementation of distance learning in the country, soon, the minister of Education, Mpinda Simão, has announced. The initiative will start from conception of a national policy that meets this demand, said the minister, who was speaking at
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05/03/2011
 Everybody’s busy. If you’re trying to juggle family and career, there are only so many hours in a day, regardless of where you work. This really presents a problem if you decide to go back to school, because now you have to add yet ONE MORE thing to your already overloaded day.
Which is wh
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05/02/2011
 After achieving independence in 1980, Zimbabwe has made tremendous progress in many fields. In 1980, there was only one university, the University of Zimbabwe, whereas today there are twelve. This is no mean feat.
Is there such progress in providing, library and information services specif
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04/07/2011
 Construction of a new Regional Campuses and Distance Education building on Utah State University’s Logan campus is scheduled to start early spring. The new building will house RCDE offices and state-of-the-art distance education classrooms. A formal groundbreaking is planned for May 2011. The estim
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04/03/2011
 E-universities are proliferating in the Gulf States with a number of new projects aimed at improved technology transfer, narrowing the digital divide and facilitating access to knowledge.
Saudi Arabia has unveiled plans to set up an electronic university in partnership with international
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03/23/2011
 RAWALPINDI: For the first time in Pakistan, an interactive surgery was broadcast over the internet to help educate surgeons and surgical students from various medical colleges and hospitals across the country.
The workshop on “Advanced Upper GI Laparoscopic Surgery” was broadcast liv
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03/21/2011
 As a military wife, Michelle Mills got used to the itinerant lifestyle but could never quite accept the fact that she hadn't finished her college degree. Over the past decade or so, Mills, a 34-year-old mother of two, sank $30,000 into college coursework, earning more than 100 credits at three different
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03/19/2011
 SHANGHAI Open University yesterday launched a special faculty for the disabled to meet their educational needs. The newly launched faculty will be mainly based on distance-learning technology, but face-to-face instruction is also available at the university.
The disabled have limited access to
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03/08/2011
 Teachers on college campuses across the country are using gaming techniques to turn classrooms into interactive experiences. Here, Yisrael Shapiro, a freelance writer and recent graduate of the Medill School of Journalism Master’s program at Northwestern University, investigates their methods —
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02/19/2011
 Jefferson, Brandon, Evansville and Osakis high schools will share in a $333,008 federal grant to upgrade interactive video technology equipment used in Distance Learning. During a news conference at Osakis High School last Thursday, Colleen Landkamer, state director of USDA Rural Development, awarded a
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01/20/2011
 On picture: A studio interview with Stuart Baker, coordinator of TUSD's only online school, and parent Edward Kile. The state legislature's new proposed budget, released last Friday puts education on the chopping block, with anticipated cuts up to $83.7 million.
Changes in funding may
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01/13/2011
 As 2011 dawns, expect to see the rate of innovation in education increase. The weak economy that has bogged down the United States for the past two years will continue to lift the online learning innovations to new heights in both K-12 and postsecondary education.
Here are six trends and pred
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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...
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