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Harrison ushers in online education revolution

While recent headlines have criticized the for-profit sector of higher education, an objective examination reveals they are in many ways more responsive than nonprofit sector institutions to the needs of today’s students. Factors [...]

Posted On : Oct, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Enrollments rise in state’s public higher education system

Enrollments on the increase in state’s public higher education system: The Massachusetts Department of High Education yesterday (Tuesday) released data showing the state’s public colleges and universities hit a new 10-year hig [...]

Posted On : Oct, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Medical education: Electronic-learning advocated

They said e-learning could be started initially as a pilot project. They were speaking at the inaugural session of a two-day workshop on E-learning at the University of Health Sciences (UHS). University of Liverpool’s Prof Paul Duva [...]

Posted On : Oct, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Higher Education Consulting Firm Announces Innovative Confer...

Higher education consulting firm Carnegie Communications, a division of Alloy Education, has officially announced "The Carnegie Conference: Sustaining your Digital Brand for Higher Education." The goal of the conference is to he [...]

Posted On : Oct, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Online Education Startup Gets $33 Million in Funding

Educational technology startup Knewton announced Thursday that it had received $33 million in new venture capital funding as it rolls out an online education platform that can be adapted to each student’s needs. The new stash, secur [...]

Posted On : Oct, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Online education is changing school funding

The more students who go to your school, the more money that you get from the state Department of Education. But recent changes in state laws would require smaller school districts to pay more per student when it comes to providing online [...]

Posted On : Oct, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Higher Education Summit kicks off in U.S.

Getting off to a brisk start on a rainy, wind-swept morning at Georgetown University here in Washington, the first ever India-United States Higher Education Summit was kicked off on Thursday by Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Human Resour [...]

Posted On : Oct, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Online education site raises $3 mil in a round led by Groupo...

Groupon co-founders Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell have invested in online educational site (with one complicate name) Udemy through their venture capital fund Lightbank. Udemy just announced a $3 million Series A round of financing led [...]

Posted On : Oct, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Diabetes Improves With Behavioral, Educational Interventions

Three studies of diabetes disease management programs indicate that intensive behavioral and educational interventions may improve patient outcomes. The 3 studies analyzed different intervention programs in different patient populations, [...]

Posted On : Oct, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Online Education's Importance Confirmed by Release of Growth...

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) recently released a report that highlights the increasingly large role online education plays in colleges and universities across the country. According to the report, between 2000 and 2 [...]

Posted On : Oct, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Cannabis schools and higher education

In a world where things could not get any stranger... The Cow Palace in San Francisco held a Cannabis Expo, including a medical marijuana job fair. Cannajobs and the Cannabis Career Institute were represented. Cannajobs bills its [...]

Posted On : Oct, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Higher education must rise to challenge of reform

DISAPPOINTING RESULTS in yesterday’s Times Higher Education ( THE) global university rankings, and concern from some employers about the quality of graduates and from higher education institutions at the quality of entrants from sch [...]

Posted On : Oct, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Online education innovators should be wary

Some professors at elite universities are trying to devise a more economical university model, and they are using the Internet to do it. Sebastian Thrun, a Stanford professor, is an advocate of the online university and has ambitious g [...]

Posted On : Oct, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

An Online Education

After wading through the shallow waters of online extension courses, the University of California is ready to make the leap into the deep end, beginning with the UC Online Instruction Pilot Project in January 2012. The project plans to of [...]