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FLINT, Mich., Feb. 7 /PRNewswire/ — The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools has granted approval to Baker College to offer a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degree. The program will begin spring 2008.
“We are gratified that several years of concentrated work have been acknowledged by the Higher Learning Commission,” said Dr. Michael Heberling, president of the Baker College Center for Graduate Studies. “The team that recently visited the graduate school was extremely positive about the quality of the proposal and also the quality of the faculty and staff who have been intricately involved in the development of the program.” continue reading...
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., July 26 /PRNewswire/ — Half of prospective college students who say they’re interested in taking online courses in the next 12 months would like to enroll in a completely online degree program, finds a new survey recently conducted by American InterContinental University Online. Another 32 percent favor a program that is primarily online but includes some campus-based courses and activities, while 10 percent want to pursue primarily an education on campus and 8 percent prefer a program that is half online.
The survey spotlights the growing popularity of acquiring a post-secondary education entirely through the convenience of online delivery channels. By 2006, nearly 3.2 million college students were enrolled in at least one online course, up from 1.6 million in 2003, according to the Sloan Consortium, the nation’s largest association committed to quality online education. Eduventures, a leading research and consulting firm for the education industry, reports that by next year, fully one in 10 college students will be enrolled in an online university. continue reading...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Every parent today struggles with finding enough time to seek out high-quality information and resources with respect to the education of their children. Although the information is often available, it’s difficult to find and is usually more anecdotal than authoritative. Education.com today unveiled an easy to use, comprehensive, one-stop online destination that helps parents and educators solve these problems. Education.com empowers parents and educators of children ages pre-school through grade 12 to take an ever more active role in their childrens’ education. Education.com offers easily accessible, high-quality educational and developmental content including:
-- Over 4,000 reference articles from the best and most authoritative
sources across the Web
-- Editorial content that encourages parents to take learning beyond the
classroom and incorporate it into children's every day lives
-- Vibrant online communities where parents with similar interests or
challenges can connect and share their experiences with one another
“Every parent has questions concerning their children’s education, but it’s often unclear where they can go for answers. Those who turn to the Web find that educational resources are fragmented and inconsistent,” according to Ron Fortune, CEO of Education.com. “The ultimate goal of Education.com is to empower parents to help their children succeed. Education is not strictly limited to academic instruction, so whether it’s helping parents choose a school or helping keep kids happy, healthy and motivated, our hope is to provide a resource that minimizes the time spent searching for answers and allows for more time to focus on a child’s education.” continue reading...
PRINCETON, NJ — (MARKET WIRE) — April 26, 2007 — ETS’s Criterion(SM) Online Writing Evaluation won the highest honor — the Platinum Level Award — at the IMS Global Learning Consortium conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, last week. The Criterion service is a web-based instructional tool that helps students plan, write and revise essays, and provides instant scoring and annotated diagnostic feedback.IMS’s Global Learning Impact Award program honors high-impact use of technology in learning, and the coveted Platinum Level Award is awarded to the finalist that shows superior measurable impact on faculty/teacher adoption, student achievement, and ease of implementation.
“The Global Learning Impact Award is unique in that it recognizes the use of innovative technology within the context of a school or educational program,” says John Oswald, ETS’s Senior Vice President for Elementary and Secondary Education. “These aren’t products that sit on shelves. They are actually in use in the classroom, increasing student achievement and improving school performance. ETS is proud that our Criterion Online Writing Evaluation has been recognized for its demonstrated impact.” continue reading...
DENVER, March 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — eCollege, a leading provider of value-added information services to the post-secondary education industry, today announced that the eCollege System hit an all time high on Friday, March 2, 2007, supporting a record one billion usage minutes since January 1, 2007. The Company achieved this record high user load, which represents hundreds of thousands of students and instructors, while continuing to provide the highest levels of system performance, uptime and reliability.
“Today’s achievement demonstrates the uniqueness of our on-demand solution in supporting a high-growth market,” said Oakleigh Thorne, chairman and CEO of eCollege. “We are hitting these impressive metrics at a much faster pace than ever before, and despite the dramatic increase in usage, we continue to build on our track record of providing unparalleled scalability and availability. This is critical to our customers’ large and fast-growing programs, as it helps drive student satisfaction and retention, and overall program success.” continue reading...
ATLANTA, GA — (MARKET WIRE) — February 21, 2007 — MedSpas of America, Inc. , www.medspasofamerica.com, today announces its intention to launch MedSpa University Online.As MedSpas of America continues its roll up acquisition strategy, the company has repeatedly been asked to offer consulting and development services to assist MedSpa operators in improving their operations and increase sales. Based on this continuing demand, the company feels the Online University method will offer these services in the most effective and profitable manner.
MedSpas of America’s University Online system will offer relevant simple and real world courses. The MedSpa University Online is scheduled to launch in the next 10 weeks. Over the next 18 months, MedSpa University Online’s signature products will have over 500 fully activated Internet courses relevant to the MedSpa market. These acclaimed courses will be highly cost-competitive and convenient. The effect of these courses is to give the existing MedSpa owners, managers and their employees a methodology to improve corporate competencies, market and technical capabilities to increase sales and profits for their business. Additionally, these courses will help educate potential MedSpa owners that are interested in the industry. continue reading...
PITTSBURGH, PA — (MARKET WIRE) — February 15, 2007 — The Art Institute Online, a division of The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, has opened a student campus in Second Life, a virtual online community, which will be the forum for a new Business Communications course. The faculty, realizing the potential for a rewarding learning experience, credits student interest in Second Life as the source for the course’s development.Developed by San Francisco-based Linden Lab, Second Life is a rapidly growing and constantly changing 3D MUVE (multi-user virtual environment) where residents can discover a world of exploration, socializing, creativity, self-expression, and learning. The online society uses real-time 3D streaming technology and runs on proprietary software that students can download from the Second Life web site at www.secondlife.com.
Second Life allows The Art Institute Online students and faculty to create avatars — or cartoon-like characters — that interact with one another and are controlled via keyboard and mouse. The course will be primarily asynchronous and students will have the opportunity to communicate in an environment that lends itself to socialization. continue reading...
WASHINGTON, DC — (MARKET WIRE) — February 14, 2007 — Blackboard Inc. announced today the launch of Scholar®, a free, innovative social bookmarking Web service, aimed at connecting faculty and students and enhancing teaching and learning. This new tool enables millions of Blackboard users — including faculty, students, and administrators — for the first time, to connect on a regular basis across institutions, and share resources. Scholar allows members of the Blackboard® community to save and classify bookmarks and searches, share resources with faculty, students and administrators from other institutions, automatically update courses with dynamic content feeds, and enable student contributions to course collections.”Scholar is one of many ways Blackboard is helping to bring the power of Web 2.0 to the education community,” said Michael Chasen, President and CEO of Blackboard. “The site provides a forum where a network of learners, teachers and administrators can share the web resources they find most useful with peers across academia. It is a powerful opportunity for our global end user community to collaborate and connect beyond the campus.”
Social bookmarking is an increasingly popular way to find, categorize, save and share a collection of one’s favorite Web sites. Similar to the ‘favorites’ or ‘bookmarks’ feature in many web browsers, social bookmarking allows users to save the web sites they find of interest or value. Social bookmarking services additionally enable users to save the bookmarks in a central location, tag them with relative descriptors and then easily access them later from any Internet connection. Scholar takes it even further by customizing social bookmarking for education and putting it right at the users’ fingertips by integrating it with Blackboard’s online learning environments. continue reading...
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — (MARKET WIRE) — February 13, 2007 — China Education Resources Inc. (”CER”, the Company) was recently selected by the Ministry of Education as a recommended education resource throughout China.CER launched its next online teacher training program in China. Organized by the Ministry of Education’s Curriculum Development Center (CDC), and utilizing CER’s internet education portal www.cersp.com, the training program is being delivered to 16,000 primary and junior high school teachers in China.
Mr. Chengfeng Zhou, Chairman of CER stated, “This next level of teacher training is the implementation and testing of our technology and infrastructure changes employing the information we learned from our first teacher training program. These teaching programs are utilizing our new technology whereby we are delivering 11 core subjects simultaneously with substantially more video content and are confident we can now handle many more participants and courses.” continue reading...
