Online Learning
6 ways e-learning tools support healthcare education
E-learning tools in healthcare provide a range of benefits that can help reduce the strain on hospitals and other healthcare facilities
College organic farming programs growing
Misha Manuchehri slowly picks her way through plots of barley, wheat and peas. Every so often, the graduate student in crop science at Washington State University stoops to…
College requires fitness assessment for freshmen
During their first semester at Coker College, students this year will take a new required sequence designed to ease the transition from high school, USA Today reports.
Online lecture viewers can zoom, pan within videos using new software
New software that allows viewers watching online video lectures to zoom and pan around recorded images could provide an interactive and more cost-effective alternative to current lecture capture…
Wikipedia says it’s losing contributors
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that is written entirely by volunteers and allows anyone to edit its entries, is losing contributors, its founder complained Aug. 4, even as professors…
Are for-profit colleges hurting online education’s reputation?
Congressional hearings and a barrage of criticism have put for-profit colleges on the defensive, and with many of the sector’s largest schools touting vast web-based course options, those…
Ed-tech leaders push closed captioning, compliance monitoring
Teaming up with companies that provide transcribers or software that scans recorded lectures and provides transcription, colleges and universities are increasingly looking for new, inexpensive ways to eliminate…
Technology, interaction can bring big retention gains to small colleges
Electronic lists detailing which students are in danger of dropping out of college have become a favorite of campus administrators trying to curtail falling retention rates. Classes teaching…
Two years after Obama’s college initiative, major obstacles remain
