Texas School Receives Grant to Support Hispanic Graduate Students Online
The U.S. Department of Education awarded the School of Education at the University of St. Thomas in Houston a $2.8 million Title V Education Grant to fund the Promoting Post Baccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans (PPOHA) Program. The purpose of the education grant is to implement programs to achieve parity among Hispanic graduate students and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Online Ed Students Outpace Classroom Students in Career Exam
Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas is one of the state’s public institutions of higher learning. The school has been a leader in developing online degree options for its students, who can opt for a blended degree program in many academic areas and pursue several undergraduate degrees through a complete distance learning program. There [...]
University of Phoenix Picks Portland Teacher for Mentor of the Year
Teaching in a classroom can be a challenge on its own, but mentoring is another thing altogether — the amount of energy and one-on-one intensity is something to be commended. This month, one man was recognized for exactly that. Russ Kinyon, a fourth grade teacher at Glenfair Elementary School in Portland, Oregon, was honored by [...]
Texas Educators Going Back to School
Lamar University in eastern Texas has opened up an online degree program that is targeted at people who are working in the public education system and want to upgrade their credentials. Brian Bowman, spokesman for the Longview School district, is working on a master’s in education administration and certification status for the position of [...]
Concordia University Blends Education With Technology for New Masters Program
The landscape of education is changing drastically — where chalkboards and textbooks were once considered all you need, new technology has given way to innovations in the teaching method. One school, Concordia University’s Chicago campus, is harnessing that landscape with an instructional technology degree that is appealing to teachers at every level of instruction.
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Harvard Announces New Educational Doctorate Experiment
The Boston Globe’s online publication Boston.com is carrying a story on Harvard University’s innovative new doctoral degree in education. It is an Ed.L.D. (as opposed to a PhD): a program that is meant to provide the skills for actual management careers in education administration rather than the knowledge and abilities to teach and conduct [...]
Nevada School District Highlights Teaching Credential Needs
The Clark County School District in Nevada covers a lot of territory, including the cities of Las Vegas and Henderson. That area of the state has been on a development bender for several years and the impact on the school district is astonishing. This year alone they will be opening three new elementary [...]
Wilkes University Unveils New Masters Degree in Online Teaching
As we are seeing time and time again, the landscape of learning is rapidly changing. Not only are our methods for learning changing, but our methods of teaching must also change to reflect the shifting world of education. One major change has been, of course, the recent rise of distance learning, and Wilkes University is [...]
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