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College students launch online auction
At the end of each semester, Bentley College sophomore Shahzad Zia usually offers his used textbooks to the highest bidder on the most popular internet auction sites. This spring, he plans to list them for a more exclusive community--and...

Book: Rethinking Learner Support in Distance Education
Rethinking Learner Support in Distance Education Distance learning is becoming an increasingly popular way of studying, and most universities now provide courses using this method. This book considers the changing needs and demands of...

Book: The Distance Education Evolution: Issues and Case Studies
The Distance Education Evolution: Issues and Case Studies The Distance Education Evolution: Case Studies addresses issues regarding the development and design of online courses, and the implementation and evaluation of an online...

Kentucky gets second online high school
A Mount Sterling teacher has opened the state's first online privately owned high school, hoping to reach hard-luck students from around the world. Donna Johnson runs Providence High School, where students read, do assignments, ask...

Teachers Teaching Teachers Online
E-learning and its various technologically advanced bells and whistles are part and parcel of today’s academic and corporate learning environments. Traditionally, the teacher-learner relationship is measurably enhanced by interactive face...

Book: Higher Education Through Open and Distance Learning
Higher Education Through Open and Distance Learning This book summarises the current status of both open and dual mode institutions and reviews developments that have taken place over the last twenty years. Price $43.95 - eBooks.com...

Book: Convergence of Distance and Conventional Education
Convergence of Distance and Conventional Education: Patterns of Flexibility for the Individual Learner This book focuses on the convergence of open and distance learning...

Book: Vocational Education and Training through Open and Distance: Volume 5
Vocational Education and Training through Open and Distance: Volume 5 This book identifies the major policy issues in the use of open and distance learning for vocational education as these face international, national and...

Book: Basic Education at a Distance
Basic Education at a Distance: World Review of Distance Education and Open Learning: Volume This book assesses the impact and effect of the experience of basic education at a distance all over the world and in a variety of forms. This...

USC Distance Learning Goes International
Viterbi Engineering School's Innovative DEN Partners With ChevronTexaco to Offer Unique 'Smart Oil' Classes Worldwide An educational revolution has spread worldwide. The University of Southern California’s innovative Distance Education...

In virtual school, teacher is just an e-mail away
May I substitute the three-page paper analyzing "The Epic of Gilgamesh" with a different project? Since the story is about friendship, I'd like to film a documentary about a day in my life, and how my best friend's death affected me....

Broadband Networking >> The 'Other' VoIP
While colleges and universities rush to send voice over the internet protocol, a select few are using broadband pipes to deliver something far more sophisticated. Television sets are a dying breed at Northwestern University (IL). Walk the...

Residency dispute tests virtual schooling
A virtual school controversy in Pennsylvania that centers on the definition of "residency" points to an area of concern that cyber schools in other states might one day have to grapple with, too. The dispute involves more than $100,000...

Online professional development approved
Officials from 15 school area districts learned last week that an on-line professional development program from the federal Department of Education has been approved. This is good news for teachers in the state’s 501 school districts who face...

University of Phoenix says ensuring institution's accreditation essential for online learning programs
With the topic of online learning being under such scrutiny of late, the most important factor in play when considering such a program is, naturally, accreditation (or more appropriately, as we've seen, the lack thereof). To answer some of...

Canadian Universities Ranking
Canadian universities ranking according with The Gourman Report (1998): University State/Province 1 McGill University Quebec 2 University of Toronto Ontario...

Get an Online Education from One of America’s Premiere Universities
Not so long ago, pursuing an advanced degree meant you had to put your life on hold and dedicate yourself 100 percent to an on-campus program. But if you were working and raising a family, you likely could not relocate near a campus,...

Dover High School offers additional courses in virtual classrooms
Students at Dover High School are taking part in a relatively new educational opportunity called the Virtual High School - a collaborative of high schools throughout the world that work together to offer more than 300 online courses to...

Online high school expanding
For the first time, Rapid City Academy Online will offer high school students more enrollment flexibility for the courses it offers on the Internet. "Beginning Dec. 13, we're prepared to enroll students anytime from now through Feb. 28,"...

The State of Distance Education: Observations
For this month's newsletter, we're going to step back and take a look at where distance education has been and where it's going. Sometimes is seems as if time rushes past; we turn around and wonder where the time went. As the year comes...

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