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Former Kaplan Chief's Firm Buys Online-Course Company
The investment firm run by Jonathan Grayer has bought Learning House, which works with nonprofit colleges to develop online degree programs.
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Teaching Online From 'Mortaritaville' in Iraq
Amid dust storms and incoming mortar rounds, an economics professor serving in Iraq kept her classes going in North Dakota by teaching online.
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'Gross Academic Fraud' Reported at U. of Texas at Brownsville
Students and other employees in the university's distance-education office misused the Blackboard course-management system to obtain test answers, a campus police...
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Online Education: Growing, but Painfully
Evolve or dissolve. That advice played out in two recent news stories about the growing pains of colleges' online-education programs.
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Professors Regard Online Instruction as Less Effective Than Classroom Learning
A majority of faculty members said in a survey that teaching online courses was burdensome and inadequately rewarded, and learning outcomes for students were inferior to the...
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Gas Prices Drive Students to Online Courses
Fuel costs are booming -- and so is enrollment in distance education, as students try to avoid expensive commutes.
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President of Apollo Group Inc. Resigns to Join Competing For-Profit Institution
The president, Brian Mueller, announced on Wednesday that he was leaving to take a similar post at Grand Canyon University, a smaller institution with aspirations to grow.
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UMass Touts New Online Courses for China, but Official Approval May Not Come Easily
The institution announced that it will offer 40 online courses to students in China in the spring of 2009, but observers say that the program's online focus may not satisfy...
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Online Colleges Will Facilitate Comparisons of Their Programs
Ten institutions plan to reveal measures of student learning and graduates' success rates in their careers, among other data. Potential students can use the information to...
