Distance Learning is showing up all over the place . . . .
- Distance Learning Courses Help Executives Hone Skills | Entertainment Articles From Authors
Distance Learning Courses Help Executives Hone Skills (#Courses #Distance #Executives #Help #Hone (@buzzent)
[ed note: This article shows eight advantages for distance learning.]
- Great Distance Learning and Online Scholarships | Scholarship Options
RT @ScholarshipsYou Great Distance Learning and Online Scholarships | Scholarship Options (@ScholarshipsYou)
[ed note: Some scholarship opportunities for distance learning students. ]
- Homeopathy Education: Swine Flu Preparedness and Distance Learning
RT @DebbyBruck: Preparedness & Distance Learning #HEALTH #Homeopathy #Emergency #SwineFlu RT @1txsage1957 (@L_Hawkins)
[ed note: An interesting take on distance education. If your child has the flu, you don't want send to send your child to school. And, what do you do when the school closes because of some crisis? Keep your child up to date in class with distance learning programs. This is a high-level overview of how schools should be employing distance learning facilities so that these conditions don't affect children's progress in school. ]
- Blog U.: Technology and (Distance) Learning – Inside Higher Ed
RT @rashford: Inside Higher Ed: Technology and Learning-ELI 2010 From a Distance #ELI2010 (@bohyunkim)
[ed note: Interesting discussion of "Lecture Capitol" (the concept of the 'value' of the lecture) as universities work to build and install sophisticated systems for offering/managing their professor's teaching materials and lectures. The author puts these platforms up against inexpensive recording devices and YouTube and iTunes which make it easy for the professor to record and post their own materials and make them more freely available. This is a new face to where distance learning will go.]
- Online Scheme Highlights Fears About Distance Learning-Education Fraud – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education
RT @ArtJipson: Online fears about distance-learning education fraudsters significant issue for distance learning (@RickCartwright)
[ed note: A report about fraud in Federal financial-aid that was offered for distance learning programs. A well-organized scheme to create an 'army' of fake students was put in place and the government lost over $500,000. The article has discussions of what the government and the educational institutions need to do to protect themselves from this type of fraud.]
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