Online Education News Archive
18-Dec-2006
Teaching, learning with a difference-I (Greater Kashmir)
No formal classrooms. No chalk, no talk. It?s education with a flavour of its own. Syed Toaseen Rehmat writes on the desirability and recommendations of online education With the rise in the popularity of the internet over the last ten years, the world we live in has been redefined many times. Peirce College Shows Success of Expanded Communications (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Peirce CollegeŽ, one of the nation's oldest business colleges and a leader in online education, marks the one year anniversary of a technology-based communication system designed and deployed by Consultedge, Inc., a leading provider of integrated communications solutions. Commission to consider online schools (The Pueblo Chieftain)
A new education commission has been formed to look at online kindergarten through 12th-grade education in Colorado in the wake of a recent scathing audit of internet schools. The Trujillo Commission for Online Education will make recommendations to state officials on how to respond to issues that were raised in the audit. The commission will be hosted by the Donnell-Kay Foundation. "The ... Congressman tells graduates to take the bad, learn from it, and move on (The Daily Sentinel)
"A ship is safe in harbor, but that is not what ships are built for." ? author unknown Task force to eye online education (Rocky Mountain News)
The Colorado Board of Education will appoint a task force to explore problems in online education in the wake of a state audit that criticized the programs. The long ride (BendBulletin.com)
Every day, a handful of students at Crook County High School spend up to four hours behind the wheel of a car or riding the bus to and from school. It is a lifestyle that makes it difficult to participate in extracurricular activities and spend time with friends.
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