Florida Community College an Online Innovator
Gulf Coast Community College has seen a dramatic increase in online learning, which is has developed through the gradual development of online courses now numbering over one thousand. The school is now taking the next step, enrolling students for the upcoming spring semester for six fully online degree programs.
The impressive aspect of this step [...]
Report Shows Two Thirds of New Jobs Come From New Companies
The Kaufmann Foundation, a non-profit organization that focuses on entrepreneurship, issued a report prior to the latest unemployment figures showing that two thirds of the jobs created in the U.S. in 2007 came from new companies. While the manufacturing sector continues to shrink and financial institutions continue to consolidate, the entrepreneurs are feeding a [...]
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 [...]
What You Learn Matters More Than Where You Learn It
In an article posted on TechCrunch, an entrepreneur-turned-academic writes about his research into the relationship between successful entrepreneurship and the education of the business founders. What found in his profiles of successful business leaders might surprise you. Author Vivek Wadhwa is a research associate at Harvard and chairs a research division at Duke.
In [...]
Penn State Wins Award for Online GIS Degree
Penn State has poured a lot of effort into their online effort; as a result their World Campus is probably among the top five online education programs among the country’s top traditional universities. Recently online education foundation The Sloan Consortium recognized the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences’ Master of Geographic Information Systems program [...]
Engineering and the Question of Hands-On Training in a Virtual World
As the world of online education advances, more and more degrees are hitting the internet to give students around the world an expanding array of opportunities. As the technology with which to administer that education advances as well, professors and administrators are able to bring students online courses that were once never thought possible. Already, [...]
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 [...]
Video Game Degrees are Serious Business
The Kansas City Star recently reviewed the job market for games and gamers, during the course of which the reporter interviewed Entertainment Software Association spokesman Rich Taylor, who made an interesting point: “A generation that has grown up playing video games is entering college…”Schools are responding to that.”
Mr. Taylor backed up his perspective with some [...]
Expert Claims Science and Technology Students have “Better Chance at Jobs”
All jobs are not created equal — even when the economy is in full swing recovery, some future jobs will have more potential and offer better opportunities than others, and the paths that some people take may make those opportunities easier or harder yet. According to GradPlus, one expert is pointing to science and technology [...]
Distance Learning Marches On
Most of the commentary on distance learning lately has been about the sudden and profound effect it is having on our education infrastructure and on the workforce transformation that is following on the heels of huge changes in our labor market.
Reuters has a story today on the increase in distance learning enrollment for the year. [...]
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