Distance Learning

Magazine articles on distance learning and online education.

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T.H.E. Journal	Class.com Has Two New Mini-courses Class.com (www.class.com) has two new mini-courses that are designed to help students, teachers and parents preview the online learning experience to gauge the students' ability to grasp the new learning method and ultimately succeed.
T.H.E. Journal	Jones International University to participate in Distance Education Demonstration Program Jones International University a fully online, regionally accredited university, has been selected by the U.S. Department of Education to participate in the Distance Education Demonstration Program (DEDP), online at www.ed.gov/programs/disted, which gives JIU students access to federal financial aid in the first half of the year.
T.H.E. Journal	Ashworth College Offers $99 Graduate Programs E-learning institution Ashworth College now offers two affordable fast-track graduate programs in business administration and criminal justice for only $99 per month, with a $99 down payment. Both master's programs are accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council and are self-paced, giving students up to five years to complete a program.
T.H.E. Journal February 2004 Karen Hughes Miller	The Law Catches Up With Distance Education Voice-recognition software makes online legal instruction more efficient and effective.
T.H.E. Journal February 2004 Yoshi Shinkai	Videoconferencing System Brings Japanese Students Face-to-Face With U.S. Professors Educational institutions worldwide were only recently able to offer students access to communications systems that allow them to interact with professors and other students from remote locations via rich media and videoconferencing technologies.
T.H.E. Journal February 2004 DiMaria & Ostrow	West Virginia University School of Nursing Makes the Move to Web-Based Learning The school was able to expand their program by offering their courses over the Internet. Here's how they implemented their system.
T.H.E. Journal November 2003 Jill K. Bell	Videoconferencing Takes Cape Elizabeth Middle School on a Distance Learning Adventure Imagine watching fifth-graders in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, examining and comparing the anatomy of zoo animals in their own classroom -- while the animals are more than 200 miles away. Incredibly, that's what we did one day last March in a live videoconference with the Bronx Zoo in New York.
Wired September 2003 David Diamond	MIT Everyware Every lecture, every handout, every quiz. All online. For free. Meet the global geeks getting an MIT education, open source-style.
T.H.E. Journal August 2003 W. Joy Lopez	Content Delivery for a Virtual High School We used a variety of technology tools to develop a program that delivers core high school course material. These technology tools and delivery models had to align with the beliefs laid out by our team.
T.H.E. Journal August 2003 Edward P. Kahler	Maintaining the Integrity of a Web-Based Music Course Is it possible to adapt an existing, traditionally delivered music course to an Internet delivery modality? Could we maintain the high intellectual integrity of the course and deliver it via the Internet?
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