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Women make free online education site

Three city women — Swapna Gupte, Ragini Tandon and Sunila Bhonde — have launched a website, www.sharpeners.in, a unique initiative to provide schoolchildren with syllabus-based educational content in an interesting yet simple [...]

Posted On : Sep, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Women make free online education site

Three city women — Swapna Gupte, Ragini Tandon and Sunila Bhonde — have launched a website, www.sharpeners.in, a unique initiative to provide schoolchildren with syllabus-based educational content in an interesting yet simple [...]

Posted On : Sep, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

An online education in American slang

Jessica Beinecke, 24, films her Web video show in her Capitol Hill living room. "OMG! Meiyu" ("meiyu" means "American English" in Mandarin) has become a huge hit in China, where she has more than 100,000 foll [...]

Posted On : Sep, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Far and away: online learning's big appeal

But that doesn't always mean the course has been reworked and tweaked so that it works well online, says Curtin University's head of internet studies, Professor Matthew Allen. He says would-be students should track down the course [...]

Posted On : Sep, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Online Enrollment Jumps For UW-System By 19 Percent

On first day of the fall semester 1,602 students were enrolled in the University of Wisconsin Colleges Online, a dramatic increase of 19 percent over the previous fall. “Online education continues to be the fastest-growing part o [...]

Posted On : Sep, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Schools Prepare Teachers to Engage in Online Education

According to the 2010 Sloan Survey of Online Learning, in the fall 2009 semester there were approximately 5.6 million students enrolled in at least one web-based class. This marked a 21% increase from the previous year, compared to a 2% g [...]

Posted On : Sep, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

Online education for trustees

The Financial Services Board (FSB) has launched a free online education programme, known as the Trustee Toolkit, for the education and development of retirement fund trustees. Jurgen Boyd, the FSB’s deputy executive in charge of [...]

Posted On : Aug, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

University education goes online with virtual courses

As British students face the daunting prospect of paying up to £9,000 a year for higher education, there are increasing opportunities to learn online for much less, and in many cases free. Earlier this month, Stanford University ope [...]

Posted On : Aug, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

UC takes first steps into online education

Going online to get a college degree has been championed as a cost-effective way to educate the masses and challenged as a cheapening of academia. Now, the online classroom is coming to the vaunted UC system, making it the nation's fi [...]

Posted On : Aug, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Neb. launches pilot program for online education

The state is launching a pilot program that will allow Nebraska high school students to take online courses. Gov. Dave Heineman signed an agreement Friday with leaders from the University of Nebraska, state Education Department, the Educa [...]

Posted On : Aug, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Online education rules get hearings

Idaho’s Board of Education has set seven public hearings across the state on a proposal to require high school students to take two online courses to graduate. One of the two must be an “asynchronous” course, defined as [...]

Posted On : Aug, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Online Education's Net Worth

Taking classes by computer has become common at many community colleges, and today, most universities offer some online courses. Elite schools like NYU and Columbia have remained reluctant to award online bachelor's degrees, but that [...]

Posted On : Aug, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Online education: Even as acceptance grows, issues remain

  In the past 10-15 years, online colleges and universities have opened up the world of higher education to almost everyone, regardless of family or career obligations that can make it impossible to attend traditional schools. [...]

Posted On : Aug, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

Jacksonville University Hosts Free Online Education Course f...

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that many states require registered nurses to earn continuing education (CE) credits even after they have completed their degree programs. This ensures that nurses are constantly enhancing their [...]

Posted On : Aug, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

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