Archive for July, 2009
Online Classes Give San Francisco High School Kids a Second Chance
Like virtually all urban centers, San Francisco has a unified school district that is belabored with students who were not raised in a learning environment. Some of these kids come to high school with little interest in the academics; some lose a year to peer distractions or drug use.
The resulting Ds and Fs… | Read More
Drexel University Adds New Graduate Program in E-Learning Leadership to Course Catalog
In this day and age, with the advent of online education and the recent revamping of distance learning in general, one of the most important aspects that often goes overlooked is the need for more professors to keep online education at the top of its game. It requires more than just expertise in the subject… | Read More
Online Education a Growing Feature of Military Service
Distance learning has become a widespread activity in the United States military. While all four service branches offer guidance and financial assistance to their men and women on active duty the, the highest level of distance learning activity is found among the Army's troops. Just three years after the United States Army started… | Read More
Baltimore Welcomes New Pharmacy School
Congratulations, Baltimore! You are now home to the first pharmacy school in the United States to be established on an all-women's college campus. That college in particular is the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, and its new School of Pharmacy is already creating quite a buzz. College communication director Theresa Wiseman, who spoke to… | Read More
Tuition Assistance now Available for all Military Spouses
For some time the Department of Defense has had a pilot program in operation that provides up to $6,000 in educational funding support for the spouses of military personnel on active duty. The program is called the Military Spouse Career Advancement Account - or if you chose to utilize the DoD acronym, the MyCAA.… | Read More
Visibility Vs. Quality: Which Makes the Better College?
How often are high school students told that, in order to be successful, they must attend a college that is above all things instantly recognizable? While high visibility is usually a great indicator that a school is quality material, there are many other factors that may balance out or even outweigh elements like visibility alone.… | Read More
Harvard University Opens its Doors to Online Education
Maybe you have to be on the right mailing list, but it came as news to me the other day when I learned that one of the thirteen colleges on the Harvard campus is the Harvard University Extension School. It has apparently been in existence for close to a century, focusing on continuing education… | Read More
Mortgage Help for Ohio College Grads
The Ohio Housing Finance Agency has been given the green light to develop a program providing mortgage assistance to new college graduates, says a report in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.�� The OHFA is a public/private agency that is headed by a board of trustees mostly appointed by the governor.�� The agency's mission is contributing to… | Read More
Community Colleges Enthusiastic Over New Financial Opportunities
Last week, President Obama gave a speech in which he announced his "American Graduation Initiative," a plan involving the investment of $12 billion into the United States' community college system. As expected, community colleges across the country are thrilled with this development and already seeking new ways to upgrade their facilities.
Big plans are already… | Read More
A Little Educational Anarchy at MIT
One of the most interesting aspects of the early Internet days - Web 1.0, in today's terminology - was the spirit of freedom that ruled the online culture.�� The notion of selling services did not come easily to the Internet, where traditionally what you found online was free to use.
Open source software and software… | Read More
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