eLearners.com answers common questions about online education
As Self-Improvement Month, September marks a time when many adults may begin to consider going back to school online as a way to improve themselves and their careers;…
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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…
More pupils are learning online, fueling debate on quality
Jack London was the subject in Daterrius Hamilton’s online English 3 course. In a high school classroom packed with computers, he read a brief biography of London with…
Online courses, still lacking that third dimension
When colleges and universities finally decide to make full use of the internet, most professors will lose their jobs, says Randall Stross for Digital Domain.
Report predicts online learning explosion by 2015
The number of college students taking online college courses will equal the number of students who attend classes in a traditional classroom by 2015, according to a market…
How to find a quality online degree
While online degrees were once largely seen as being second-rate, recent studies have reported that employers are not only more open to, but are even showing a favorable…
How online classrooms are helping Haiti rebuild its education system
While reconstructing the destroyed universities is a long-term task, University of the People is hoping to give Haitian students a way to continue their educations before it's completed,…
Online learning official: Video lectures help students ‘review, review, review’
Jacqueline Moloney wants college students to do less transcribing and more listening. Moloney, head of online learning at UMass Lowell, has overseen an effort to make lecture capture…
Study: Online learning less effective for some
Higher education’s embrace of online courses could hurt the performance of some groups of students, according to a study that contradicts the findings of a 2009 report from…
Ed-tech grant program aims to boost college readiness
Six months after the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pumped $3.6 million into a national certification program for teachers of remedial college courses, a new initiative will dole…