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15 Jul 08

Gain an edge by taking online classes :: Neighbors :: Post-Tribune

  • Several outstanding colleges offer classes online to high school students. Even middle-schoolers can take advantage of them. According to the Wall Street Journal, the pre-college student category has become one of the fastest growing segments of the distance-learning market.
  • Students taking classes at Purdue North Central in psychology, for instance, may receive dual credit; one credit for high school and three credits from Purdue.
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Top News - Gas prices fuel rise in virtual field trips

As schools grapple with budget cuts and rising fuel costs, many districts are finding it necessary to reduce or eliminate field trips, leaving students and teachers with a surprisingly attractive option--virtual field trips.

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  • As schools grapple with budget cuts and rising fuel costs, many districts are finding it necessary to reduce or eliminate field trips, leaving students and teachers with a surprisingly attractive option--virtual field trips.
  • Some virtual field trips are conducted through video or web conferencing, while others are available on individual computers by clicking a link on an organization's web site

High Cost of Driving Ignites Online Classes Boom (pg 1) - NYTimes.com

  • This is what we need to change. Quality comes first and should be the driving factor for creating online courses, not just revenue. As competition in this area increases, quality will be the thing that sets one institution apart from another.

    Step 2, find dynamic and savvy (or at least very willing to learn) faculty to facilitate. Online teaching is not the same as F2F and facilitating the online experience IS an art form.     - edventures on 2008-07-15
  • Colleges from Massachusetts and Florida to Texas to Oregon have reported significant online enrollment increases for summer sessions, with student numbers in some cases 50 percent or 100 percent higher than last year.
  • the greatest surges have been registered at two-year community colleges,
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High Cost of Driving Ignites Online Classes Boom (pg 2) - NYTimes.com

  • Critical for our higher ed admin to KNOW and UNDERSTAND. Quality of program and faculty are critical to setting an institution apart. - edventures on 2008-07-15
  • Must remember this - particularly here in NH, connections stlil run the full spectrum with a large number still on dial-up. This puts a serious crimp in courses requiring active, synchronous and virtual learning environments. - edventures on 2008-07-15
  • Distance education is no silver bullet that can alone solve the challenges posed for higher education by rising gasoline prices, officials warned.
  • many students, especially in rural areas, lack the high-speed Internet connections on which online courses depend.

High gas prices fuel boom in online classes - Boston.com

  • John Bourne, director of the Sloan Consortium, an organization in Wellesley that studies online education, said he expects gas prices to bring about "a blended classroom -- half online, half in class."
  • "Retention in online classes is lower," school spokeswoman Kimberly Haschke said, pointing out that students who do not make the drive to campus may abandon their studies before the class term is over. "I kind of worry about that."
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Nuvvo Free eLearning (LMS)

  • Nuvvo is a free LMS that is a web-hosted solution rather than a locally hosted solution. - edventures on 2007-01-04

sakaiproject.org

  • The SAKAI project is an open-source collaboration and learning environment for higher ed. - edventures on 2007-01-04
21 Jun 07

Youth Online 2007

  • This is a critical piece of information in video, audio and transcript format that dispels many rumors surrounding the statistics that the media and our legislators are using to push the types of laws intended to "protect" our youth from the Internet. - edventures on 2007-06-21
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