June 2005, Vol. 4, Issue 6
FUTURE WATCH: CROQUET - THE NEXT INNOVATIVE "OPEN-SOURCE"
ONLINE LEARNING AND TEACHING TECHNOLOGY
A glimpse of the future of online teaching and learning
environments can be seen at the Croquet Project, an
open-source collaboration being developed by a team of six
highly skilled and experienced educational technology
architects and a host of partner institutions and
corporations worldwide.
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NEW INTERNATIONAL U ANNOUNCES U.S.-BASED BLENDED TEACHER ED
PROGRAM
The latest scoop on Whitney International University.
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NEWS FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OF LEARNING
An interesting quote from Sir John Daniel and a peek at
providing practitioners with access to knowledge.
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HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM REPORTS FINDINGS OF NATIONAL
BENCHMARKING INITIATIVE
Benchmarking for quality in distance learning remains
inconsistent across post-secondary institutions, said
Richard T. Hezel, president of the education consulting firm
Hezel Associates, in a "Benchmarking for Quality in Distance
Learning" study produced with the support of the National
University Telecommunications Network (NUTN).
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TWO NEW ONLINE PROGRAMS IN HIGHER ED MANAGEMENT
Online graduate degree programs, in general, look to be
morphing into specialized programs of study targeted at
specific audiences. For instance, two new online graduate
degree programs that teach students the administrative side
of higher education, were recently launched by Drexel
University and Capella University. Drexel recently announced
a unique MS in Higher Education program to be offered this
September. In late February, Capella announced an MS in
Education Enrollment Management, with students starting
classes in July.
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DUQUESNE'S SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP AND PROFESSIONAL ADVANCEMENT
MOVING FORWARD WITH ONLINE MS IN LEADERSHIP AND BUSINESS
ETHICS
More than 200 students have thus far enrolled in a Duquesne
University online MS in Leadership and Business Ethics (MSLBE)
program that just rounded out its third year of course
offerings. Administrators of this program are quite pleased,
since they initially projected that the MSLBE program would
enroll about 90 students over five years.
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