Online Education
Gates Foundation Grants Target College Graduation Rates
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced $4 million in grants to the National League of Cities’ Institute for Youth, Education and Families, and seven cities to boost college graduation rates by better coordinating the services that colleges, schools and communities provide to students. Reuters reports that, “Enrollment at the nation’s 1,200 community colleges [...]
University of Texas Announces New Bachelor’s Degree Completion Programs
The University of Texas (UT) says that millions of Texans have started college, but never completed a bachelor’s degree. The census statistics appear to back UT’s analysis up: in 2000 29% of the population had some college credits but no degree, or had made it to the associate’s level but not beyond. Commuting [...]
University of Nebraska Celebrates 100 Years of Distance Learning
In 1909 during the era of “correspondence schooling,” the University of Nebraska at Lincoln (UNL) launched its first distance learning effort with some residents in the western reaches of the state. It would have taken a student from that area days to reach the campus on horseback. One hundred years later, students in [...]
Tennessee Public Universities in Online Campus Collaboration
We are starting to see state university programs embrace online education technology and in the process, create some interesting academic options for their students. In Tennessee, total enrollment in distance education courses is growing an average of 30% each semester at the Tennessee Board of Regents’ six universities, 13 community colleges and 27 technology [...]
University of Peking Takes Chinese Language Courses Online
In an interview recently Google CEO Eric Schmidt made a startling prediction: among the usual visionary list of faster broadband, faster computers and near-universal access he foresees came the comment that in five years, the predominant language used online will be Chinese. You can find many pieces of the picture that would lead to [...]
Online Instruction from an Iraqi Combat Zone
North Dakota State University provides higher education in a state where agriculture and farming are still the economic anchors. Their catalogue of business degrees reflects the state’s economic orientation, so when an associate professor of agribusiness and applied economics was called to duty by the National Guard, she took her rostrum with her.
Cheryl J. [...]
Ashford Special Ed Dept. Rolls out New Toddler Specialization
Ashford University has expanded its online degree program in the special education field to include a specialization component focused on infants and toddlers. As early education has become a “childcare plus” concept in many facilities, professionals in the special education field need to learn about the needs, caring and educational opportunities associated with very [...]
Ashford University Announces Tuition Agreement for Police Professionals
Ashford University is an online education provider based in Clinton, Iowa where the school also has a campus facility, first opened in 1918. Today the school announced a national alliance agreement with the International Union of Police Associations (IUPA). Most police offers in cities of any size belong to a police association that [...]
Research Says Most College Students will Take Classes Online by 2014
Research firm Ambient Insight has conducted an in-depth analysis of the online education market and come up with some predictions based on current trends. According to an article in Campus Technology some 1.25 million students in higher education programs take all of their classes online, while another 10.65 million take some of their [...]
Two New Online Business Degrees at U of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota at Crookston has introduced two new business degrees that incorporate some of the recent shifts in business functionality. The Crookston Daily Times is reporting that the University’s business school has expanded their degree offerings to include a marketing degree along with Bachelor of Manufacturing Management in Quality Management.
Both are online [...]
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