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Online classes gain favor at region's universities - Richard Robbins, Pittsburgh TRIBUNE-REVIEW

Online classes gain favor at region's universities - Richard Robbins, Pittsburgh TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Emily Kohut represents a new kind of college student. The wired kind. A senior at California University, Kohut currently is enrolled in five classes. For two of the classes she never sets foot in a classroom, never meets her fellow students, never sees her professors. Whenever Kohut, 21, wants to "attend" her classes in nutrition and pharmacology, she does so on the Internet in her off-campus apartment. more,,

 

2-Year Colleges Are Leading the Distance-Education Boom - Dan Carnevale, Chronicle of Higher Ed.

2-Year Colleges Are Leading the Distance-Education Boom - Dan Carnevale, Chronicle of Higher Ed.
As the growth of online-education enrollments continues, most of the increases are found in two-year institutions, according to a new report released by the Sloan Consortium. Two-year associate-degree institutions not only had the highest annual growth rate at 24 percent, but they also accounted for half of the online enrollments for the past five years, the report says. Baccalaureate-awarding institutions, on the other hand, had the lowest online enrollments and the smallest annual growth rate, at 6.9 percent. more,,

 

Can video-game companies revolutionise teaching in the 21st century?


Can video-game companies revolutionise teaching in the 21st century? - Chris Green, the Independent
If you still associate school education with dog-eared textbooks, chalky blackboards and 1970s geography videos, you're living in the past – that will be the message at the annual BETT educational technology fair in London this January. BETT is the world's leading information and communications technology event. It's been around since 1985, the same year that Microsoft launched the first version of Windows, and last year it attracted 30,000 visitors. more,,