Younger students taking distance learning courses, often part-time to enable them to attain employment and earn money as they study, are on the increase according to ...

Distance learning poses new challenges for educators. In some cases, achieving student success can be as simple as preventing student withdrawals from distance learning courses. Distance learning ...

I know! I know! Everyone is sick to death of debating the pros and cons of MOOCs, the massive online courses that, depending on your viewpoint, will be the downfall or resurrection of higher education ...

In 1840, Sir Issac Pitman, the English inventor of shorthand, came up with an ingenious idea for delivering instruction to a potentially limitless audience: correspondence courses by mail. Pitman's ...

The exam window was opened by a teacher, so the student could take the quiz/test. No one monitored the student during the quiz/test, so anyone could have taken it for the student. A teacher was ...

Distance learning far precedes the digital age. Before online courses, people relied on print materials (and later radio and ...

Title: Distance Education Policy Effective Date: June 1, 2024 Responsible Office: Office of the Provost Revision Date: April 23, 2025 This policy applies to William & Mary (W&M) as a whole university, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover education as a sector and as the bedrock of all sectors. In 1970, Coastline Community College became the first college ...

When Lauren McBryde Gray began her graduate studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, she was a chemist working at a biopharmaceutical company on the east coast of the United States, ...

Baylor College of Medicine is approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) to participate in the National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (NC-SARA). As a ...

It provides infrastructure in many countries that lack good telecommunications systems While continuing such traditional missions as doling out loans for hydroelectric dams in developing countries, ...