Capella University, an accredited online university that is a leader in online education, announced today that it has launched a new podcast series titled “Inside Online Education.” These regular podcasts will feature interviews with Capella students, faculty and staff who will share the experience of online education from a first-person point of view. The first [...]
Robin Bundy, who is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in IT at Capella University’s School of Business and Technology, has been awarded a Women in Technology scholarship from the Michigan Council of Women in Technology (MCWT).
Capella is an accredited online university and a leader in online education. Bundy decided to pursue an information technology online degree [...]
Several leading universities from the region offering a wide range of study programmes are participating in the Qatar International Exhibition for Education, Training and Development — Taaleem 2006 — which opened at the Qatar International Exhibition Centre yesterday.
Dr Sheikha Abdullah Al Misnad, President of the Qatar University, opened the three-day exhibition, which also features several [...]
Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s plan to lease the Illinois Lottery to raise $10 billion for education has erupted into a firestorm.
Downstate Democrats want assurances the money will not go to fund Chicago schools at the expense of Southern Illinois. Republicans scoff at the proposal as poor public policy. Anti-gambling groups feel it will lead to an [...]
Wizdom Education, a premiere source for special education planning and management for school districts, educators and service providers, today announces the release of MyTransPlanner!, a web-based high school to post high school transition planning tool. A one-year, renewable subscription to MyTransPlanner! is $49.95.
MyTransPlanner! was created to meet the demands of students, parents and educators, who [...]
Blinn College was selected as one of 40 two- and four-year colleges and universities nationwide to receive the 2006 HP Technology for Teaching grant, which is designed to transform and improve learning in the classroom through innovative uses of technology.
During the 2006-07 academic year, grant projects through this program will impact more than 4,000 students. [...]
Master’s degree students at Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University (STOU) now have a chance to continue their study anywhere any time, away from the classroom, using an on-demand concept.
The university has worked with IBM and Alpha Office Automation to develop a new on-demand electronic-learning service to allow its 4,000 master’s degree students to study through a [...]
Intel Corporation has announced details of its support of the World Economic Forum’s Egypt Education Initiative. Through the Intel Teach to the Future program, Intel in close collaboration with the Egyptian government will train an additional 650,000 Egyptian teachers and student teachers in university, within the next five years in the use of technology to [...]
This month, thousands of graduates of the Class of 2006 will don their caps and gowns, proudly walk across the stage and receive their diplomas. And many of those graduates won’t be the traditional image of 20-somethings preparing for their first full-time jobs or families.
They will be adults who have gone back to school, sometimes [...]
Wichita Area Technical College, in partnership with three other colleges, has received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to develop education and training curricula for aerospace manufacturing.
Purdue University, El Camino College in Los Angeles and Oregon Institute of Technology are the other partners.
WATC’s role will be similar to the other colleges. [...]