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?
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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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09/12/2008
 John Katzman has never aimed low. The first company he founded, the Princeton Review, went head on at the standardized testing industry and its assertion that the SAT and other exams couldn’t be “coached.” Hundreds of thousands of students (and hundreds of mill
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05/22/2008
 The advantages of learning by distance have long been recognised by students, but now new research among the people providing the training reveals that they too benefit from the flexibility and freedom.
Trainers imparting knowledge and skills to their students dressed only
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04/09/2008
 Instead of sifting through existing texts to find case studies suitable for his course, Matt Cookson decided to go straight to the source. In his Introduction to Public Relations class, which he teaches as an adjunct at the University of New Hampshire at Manchester, he uses content
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02/21/2008
 Who did Miller's Health Systems Inc. — a leading statewide provider of nursing homes and assisted living facilities — call to increase its number of registered nurses? Ball State University's School of Nursing.
Indiana, and the rest of the nation, is in the midst of a nu
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