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Online learning high school turns two Lake City students’ lives around by Stefanni Nolte, SC Now Alice Peterson, said she knew her daughter was headed down the wrong path. “I might have been in jail and she might have been in the funeral home somewhere,” Peterson said. Instead, the cousins heard about Provost Academy, a free public online high school for South Carolina residents. They meet at [...] Publ.Date : Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:01:36 +0000
Online learning presence gains ground at Texas colleges By JEANNIE KEVER, Houston Chronicle A board advisory committee later this month will recommend ways to cut costs in higher education, and requiring everyone who attends a public college or university in Texas to take some classes online could be up for discussion. Whether online education saves money is up for debate, since schools have to [...] Publ.Date : Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:02:24 +0000
New Online Learning Approach Prepares Doctors for Stanford Residencies By Stanford University School of Medicine, Health News Digest The setting is clearly a simulated operating room, with a robotic mannequin as the patient, but the resident’s anxiety feels all too real. And the scary soundtrack — imagine the ominous music played when the shark approaches in Jaws — only adds to the tension. This is [...] Publ.Date : Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:05:49 +0000
Ivy League class components available via open online learning By Eric Jou and Wang Wei, Asia One Ever dreamed of attending a top-notch university such as Harvard, Yale or MIT? Well now is your chance to sit in on lectures from some of the most esteemed universities in the world, as they start offering free online access. Many prestigious Western universities have been offering free [...] Publ.Date : Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:10:40 +0000
Outsourced Ed: Colleges Hire Companies to Build Their Online Learning Courses By Marc Parry, Chronicle of Higher Education As more colleges dip their toes into the booming online learning business, they’re increasingly taking those steps hand-in-hand with companies like Embanet. For nonprofit universities trying to compete in an online market aggressively targeted by for-profit colleges, the partnerships can rapidly bring in many students and millions of dollars in [...] Publ.Date : Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:10:46 +0000
