Online Education News Archive
19-Oct-2008
Alternative online education program to assist students (Sidney Herald-Leader)
When a student falls behind the required curriculum, the outcome can be devastating. That?s why last week the board of trustees authorized a new online PLATO Learning System for the alternative education program aimed toward high school students. Can Online Education Help Meet Workforce Needs? (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
An educated and skilled workforce is essential to the long-term prosperity of our country and our citizenry. Evidence indicates, however, that we cannot meet the demands of the 21st century by relying solely upon centuries-old approaches to higher education. Can Online Education Help Meet Workforce Needs? (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
A New Model for Higher Education at Western Governors University The Social Media Classroom: A New Web 2.0 Platform For Education (ReadWriteWeb)
The Social Media Classroom (SMC) is a new project started by Howard Rheingold which offers an open-source Drupal-based web service to teachers and students for the purpose of introducing social media into the classroom. The service includes tools like forums, blogs, wikis, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets, video conferencing, and more. digg_url = ... LOMA to offer online education to Independent Financial Brokers (Investment Executive)
LOMA has partnered with Independent Financial Brokers (IFB) to offer online continuing education to members. IFB provides continuing education to Canada?s financial services professionals through its Summit Education program. Sessions Online (SM) Announces Fall Winners of $1 Million Scholarship Program for Injured Armed Services Veterans (Centre Daily Times)
Sessions Online Schools of Art and Design, ("Sessions"), the quality leader in online education for creative professionals around the world, today announced the Fall winners of the Louis H. Schilt Memorial Scholarship program. Twenty students have been awarded places on the program, whose inaugural class began October 1st 2008. E-learning crosses divides (London Free Press)
THAMESFORD -- Sara Fell didn't choose to miss most of Grade 10. An illness forced her into the Children's Hospital of Western Ontario for most of the year, unable to attend classes at St. Mary's secondary school in Woodstock.
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