Most colleges have steered through the first jolts of the recession without resorting to layoffs, cutting employee benefits, or imposing across-the-board freezes on hiring. But the economic pain is afflicting campuses in many other ways, according to the findings from a new survey of chief business officers conducted last month by The Chronicle and Moody's Investors Service.... Roger Goodman, a

What does technology have in store for learning in the year ahead? We talked to experts in Web 2.0, mobile learning, and games and simulations about top trends and their forecasts for the near future of e-learning. Tony Karrer : "Web 2.0 is all about pushing the responsibility for content creation out to the learner. That represents a pretty radical shift for training organizations. The things

Whether you are just starting a blog or entering a virtual world, there is still time to get on board with the future of learning. Put your ear to the tracks, and you'll hear the rumbling of a freight train coming toward you. It's Web 2.0, and it's driven by the sound of millions of conversations across the blogosphere, the growing hum of business podcasts, and the steady accretion of

The University of Virginia hosts a library -- or gallery -- called Artists' Books Online. It's a highly academic resource that includes "facsimiles, metadata, and criticism." It's also got a lot of pretty pictures. Artists' books are, generally, books made by people in the world of visual arts who have taken the book/book-like object on as an art form. They gained enough traction so that "The

The Harvard University Extension School is offering a popular course on strategies for environmental management via distance learning. The seventh edition of the course, "Strategies for Environmental Management: Path to Sustainable Development," begins on January 26 and registration is already under way for the class that is taught by Harvard adjunct professor Robert B. Pojasek.... Online

Imagine being able to interview Abraham Lincoln. Although the country's 16th president has been dead for 143 years, Synthetic Interview (SI) technology makes it possible. SI allows computer users to interview historical figures, living or deceased, using voice-recognition software. Carnegie Mellon University patented the technology in 1998.

Brittany Partridge gets up every morning and heads to school like a normal high school kid. But unlike the majority of her classmates, her first stop is the media center where she pulls out a hefty textbook on the history of western civilization and starts to read. From 8 until 11 a.m. Partridge is no longer an Annandale High School senior, but an online student at Northwestern College in St.

At the end of December, 2008, the US Dept of Education released the results of their first look at distance learning in higher education. They found that 2/3 of colleges and universities are offering online, hybrid/blended, or other distance learning. Areas covered in the report: • Whether institutions offered various types of distance education courses, and enrollment in those courses,

A survey of employers in the landscape industry revealed the importance of arming landscaping and horticulture students with technical knowledge, practical application, and problem-solving skills. Teaching students the skills necessary to solve complex landscape management decisions is crucial to their career success.With the rapid advancement of technology over the past two decades, tools are

The Georgia Virtual Academy started in 2007 and has quietly become one of the largest public schools in the state. It teaches about 4,400 elementary and middle school students from 163 of the state’s 180 school districts. Internet-based schools have popped up across the country in the past few years because of improved technology and changing education laws. As of January, there were 173 virtual

The board approved a new program that will open a virtual door for online learning possibilities. Superintendent Jeffrey Layton along with high school Principal Mike Burkholder presented the board with a recommendation to make a Northwestern Virtual online school a reality. "We have been talking about doing this now for about three years, but it has been on the back burner," Layton said. "But

The project, known as the Aspirnaut Initiative, gives some high-performing students laptops or video iPods and sets them up with online courses and educational videos during their long rural bus rides to and from school -- a round trip that often starts before dawn and ends after dark.

Corporations merge all the time. Colleges and universities almost never do. Yet by July 1, 13 colleges in the Technical College System of Georgia will have merged into six new educational institutions.... Merged colleges plan to share instructors and use distance learning to enhance course offerings.... Merging gave Chandler’s faculty an opportunity to look differently at dual enrollment, which

As they explore ways to cut costs in a tight economy, the presidents of the state's two largest universities said they have discussed sharing some classes through distance learning technology. Sharing classes could offer a way to restore choice to students at a time when state colleges are faced with mid-year budget cuts that could mean the loss of some adjunct professors and dropped classes,

Technology The Law, Science & Technology Program at Stanford Law School has launched the Intellectual Property Litigation Clearinghouse (IPLC), an online database that offers comprehensive information about intellectual property (IP) disputes within the United States. This publicly available online research tool will enable users to review real-time data about IP legal disputes that have been

Idaho's education leaders should be applauded for their good work - Idaho is a national leader in online learning. In a recent national report, "Online Learning Policy and Practice Survey: A Survey of the States," Idaho ranked third out of 50 states for forward-thinking state policies supporting student opportunities through K-12 online learning. Idaho is one of 21 states to allow full-time

In the increasingly digital world, online learning should be a vibrant part of the state's educational options. Virtual education in Michigan is generating some big bandwidth buzz nationally. The state has the country's second-best online education program, according to the first-ever national survey of online learning policies and practices. That accomplishment is significant in this digital

The introduction of web-based education in Canadian schools, as in other developed countries, has been particularly noticeable in rural areas. Small schools in rural communities have continued to get smaller as families relocate in urban areas in search of increased educational and vocational opportunities. There are a number of issues common to the technological enhancement of rural schools: the

With growth of online course enrollments outpacing enrollments in traditional courses by 500%, institutions of higher education are experiencing significant changes in terms of long-term strategic planning. Along with providing for the infrastructure requirements associated with online course offerings, the issue of faculty preparedness and training is considered problematic from an

This article addresses critical issues for consideration when deciding whether an MBA program should go online. First, background information on various types of distance learning is provided followed by a discussion regarding research on the effectiveness of online courses. Pertinent contextual issues such as alignment of goals, technology, and infrastructure that are important considerations