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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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How Students Can Improve by Studying Themselves
A teaching experiment at the City University of New York demonstrates that failing students can learn to succeed in courses that break down their faulty study habits.
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Confessions of an Accidental Literary Scholar
Writers live on one side of the tracks. Lit scholars live on the other. One crazed grad student dared to walk the rails.
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The Challenge and Power of an Interim Presidency
C. Peter Magrath came back to the president's post one more time to help West Virginia University overcome a scandal.
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California Community-College Students May Take Online Kaplan Courses for Credit
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Free Online Courses Don't Hurt Paid Enrollment
New research at Brigham Young University found that such courses had neither a large positive nor negative effect.
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Grant Writers, Get Ready -- Bill Gates Is Fired Up About Online Learning
Bill Gates praises the potential of online learning in his annual letter about the priorities of his foundation, which boasts a $34-billion endowment.
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Online-Course Limits, Rooted in Maryland's Racial History, Could Raise Issues for Other States
University of Maryland University College cannot offer an online program to state residents because it would compete with a historically black college.
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Nation's Largest Labor Union Group Creates Online Degree Program
A new distance-learning program says it is the first accredited, degree-granting, online college open solely to union members.