Second Life citizens visit virtual campuses and take virtual classes.
Analysis of the Apollo Group, parent to the University of Phoenix and other educational ventures
This article shares that distance learning classes are crucial especially for some of the smaller school districts who do not have enough students to fill an entire class or have lost electives because of budget cuts.
A new study concludes that real-time videoconferencing, streaming, and lecture capture solutions for distance education and e-learning markets is growing not to address the needs of remote students but to accommodate demand from campus-based users who want the ability to attend class whenever and however they wish.
This article shares yet another changing learning styles of students, where campus-based learners want the ability to attend class whenever and however they wish (findings from a new study).
Rising tuition costs are far outpacing family incomes. Some cost-cutting alternatives such as distance education are mentioned at the end of the article. Could this and other tech-oriented solutions be part of the way out of this problem?
Call for Proposals for the 2009 conference. Deadline: December 5, 2008
At a NACOL symposium, virtual-school students discuss why they left their regular schools in favor of online instruction
distance learning and ecollege