Online Education News Archive
21-Sep-2006
Online Learning in an Emergency: Delivering the Curriculum When the Campus is Closed (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Within days of Hurricane Katrina hitting the Gulf Coast and levies breaking in New Orleans, a group of colleges and universities across the country pulled together to offer free online courses to students displaced by the storm. Pop Star Jennifer Paige Produces and Sings New Alma Mater Anthem for American Sentinel University (PR Web)
Paige takes a break from finishing her new album to put together the theme song for an innovative online university. (PRWEB Sep 20, 2006) How to Find the Online Program that's Right for You (Evening Times)
(ARA) - For many people, earning an advanced degree used to be an accomplishment that was out of reach. They didn't go to college right away after high school because they had to hold down a job to earn money. Once working, most people didn't have the time to go back to school. Online Learning in an Emergency: Delivering the Curriculum When the Campus is Closed (SYS-CON Media)
Within days of Hurricane Katrina hitting the Gulf Coast and levies breaking in New Orleans, a group of colleges and universities across the country pulled together to offer free online courses to students displaced by the storm. The initiative, supported with a $1.1 million dollar grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, was called Sloan Semester and created a fully functional virtual UIS officials: Global Campus shouldn't harm online programs (The State Journal-Register)
Officials at the University of Illinois at Springfield are optimistic the U of I's proposed foray into for-profit online education will not hinder the growth of UIS's own Internet-based programs.
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