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 [...]
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 [...]
Federal Grant for Rural Nursing Ed in Virginia
The University of Virginia Nursing School has received a $1.2 million grant for the purpose of preparing local and commuter graduate students to specialize in rural health care. The program will use both classroom teaching and online courses open to both full-time and part-time students of the University’s Graduate Nursing program.
Catherine Kane, the Nursing [...]
Northeastern University adds to Online Music Ed Program
Northeastern University is moving from the experimental to the essential in its use of distance learning for music students. The school has announced an agreement with Noteflight, a music software and education firm also located in Boston, to expand their online course opportunities in music.
Music Department Chairman Anthony DeRitis said, “The Northeastern University Music [...]
Center for Digital Education Announces Top Ten Tech-Savvy Community Colleges
Smart colleges at every level are in a hurry to keep up with the latest educational technology advances, and smart education publications are in a hurry to praise those colleges for their efforts. This week, the focus is on community colleges. The votes are in, and the Center for Digital Education and technocentric education magazine [...]
The Three Most Popular Online Degree Searches
An online portal for educational services has conducted a survey over the past nine months, tracking the major search engines on college degree inquiries. They looked at all of the major industries and found that the business administration degree was among the three top inquiries. Searches for accounting schools and finance degrees were [...]
USC Online Teaching Degree a Hit
The University of Southern California has slowly moved into the elite educational institution column, in large part because of the quality of its law school, medical school, film school and other focused departments like their Rossier School of Education. Like most high-end traditional schools, USC has been leery of online education due to questions [...]
Distance Learning On the Rise in Colorado
Colorado Mountain College (CMC) is seeing a lot of growth lately. Not in the physical sense, however. Classrooms aren’t getting overcrowded, and deans aren’t scrambling to open any new lecture halls. Instead, it’s all over the internet, as online course enrollment increases by 29% compared to the previous fall semester.
By the middle of September, [...]
USA Today Recognizes Advances in Online College Technology
The popularity of online education has been growing tremendously over the past few years. With President Obama placing special emphasis on access to college as an asset for the workforce, more people are taking notice of the online college trend. Today, national newspaper USA Today took particular notice, highlighting the trend, its recent expansion, and [...]
Tennessee County High Schools Introduce Distance Learning Elements to Education
Once upon a time, high schools were only brought together in a competitive spirit — linked only by the passing, emotionally-charged tangents of field days and football games. Not so, these days, thanks to the growing power of the digital age. In Tennessee, several school districts are bringing their high schools online for a unique [...]
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