Archive for March, 2007

GEDForFree Announced Free Online Program For Incoming College Students

Saturday, March 24th, 2007 in Online Training, Free Online Education | No Comments »

GEDForFree announced the availability of free GED online college preparation program for all incoming college students. They are providing free online classes which are composed of over 200 pages of digital content.
The offering of GEDForFRee is a self-paced online program that includes all GED test subject areas like Math, Social Studies, Science, Language Arts, Reading, […]

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Free E-learning Courses On Journalism Ethics

Friday, March 23rd, 2007 in Online Training, Online University News | No Comments »

The News University, a project by the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, announced the opening of their registration for the free of charge online course on Introduction to Ethical Decision-Making.  This course is being offered to journalists at all levels who want to identify, […]

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PBS TeacherLine Introduced Online Facilitator Training

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 in Online Training, Online University News | No Comments »

PBS TeacherLine, an online institution offering professional development services to educators introduced a new course that aims to train educators to work in virtual learning environments.
The new course is called Online Facilitator Training I: Mastering the Skills of Online Teaching and is scheduled to be offered from March 28 to May 8. PBS Teacherline created […]

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Carnegie Mellon Has Free Online Courses

Saturday, March 17th, 2007 in Free Online Education | No Comments »

The Carnegie Mellon University has an Open Learning Initiative that provides free online education for all.. The courses they offered here are just meant to help those people who would like to learn the college level learning for free and to help the Internet community to provide widely accessible and effective online education. And just […]

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Report Revealed The Steady Increase Of Students Who Prefer Online Studying

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007 in Online University News, Online Degree Studying | No Comments »

I just read here that the report Blending In: The Extent and Promise of Blended Education in the United States  conducted by, Sloan Consortium, Babson College and Eduventures revealed that for the past several years, the statistics of students who are into online studying are steadily increasing. The report also showed that the number of […]

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Ivy Tech Integrated Offline Management of Online Courses

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007 in Online University News, Accredited Online Universities, Online Universities | No Comments »

With the significantly growing numbers of students from Ivy Tech Community College who are enrolling at their online education programs, the college has been working with a new system that will allow their faculty to organize the online learning management in better ways whether in online and offline modes.
Right now the Ivy Tech is beta […]

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Students Taking Online Courses From SREB States Increased

Monday, March 12th, 2007 in Online University News, Online Degree Studying | No Comments »

SREB or Southern Regional Education Board is a nonprofit organization based in Georgia that advises state education leaders on ways to improve education and it has 16 member states that includes Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.
The recent report of Sloan […]

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Top Online Universities With Highest Retention Rate

Monday, March 5th, 2007 in Online University News, U.S. Online Universities, Accredited Online Universities, Online Universities | No Comments »

Knowing the retention rate of a university is probably one of the most important aspects when we are choosing an online school. Retention rate is frequently proportional to the actual satisfaction of the students who enrolled in a particular university. Just like what OED stated, a college’s retention rate reflects the student body’s overall interest […]

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Top Online Universities Based On Acceptance Rate

Monday, March 5th, 2007 in Online University News, U.S. Online Universities, Accredited Online Universities, Online Universities | No Comments »

Since I have posted about the top 20 online colleges, and we found out that these rankings are based on several criteria and metrics, my attention was caught by some of the metrics which I think deserves to be discussed separately because of their significance in choosing the right university for each one of […]

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Top 20 Online Colleges By Online Education Database

Sunday, March 4th, 2007 in Online University News, U.S. Online Universities, Accredited Online Universities, Online Universities | 1 Comment »

The Online Education Database just released their Online College Ranking for the year 2007. The said ranking was based on several criteria such as the college or university’s accreditation, the institution’s listing in College Opportunities Online Locator (COOL), the university must offer more than one undergraduate degree-granting program online and must offer at least 50% […]

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