Minnesota State Colleges And Universities System Launching New
Online Education Programs
The Andy Holt Virtual Library, with a focus on the Humanities and Fine Arts,
is free and open to the public, though designed to serve the learning communities
within the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Tennessee-Martin.
New online college courses and programs now can be launched more quickly by
the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System because of new authority
granted to the system to accredit its online programs.
Beginning June 1, colleges and universities within the Minnesota
system that create new online degree programs will submit
their programs to Minnesota Online rather than to the national
association for accreditation. The change will streamline
the process, cut the approval time by months and lead to more
online offerings by the state's largest system of higher education.
The new approval process is expected to lead to a coordinated
and comprehensive menu of offerings by system institutions.
Instructors’ Adaptation To Online Graduate Education In Health
Promotion: A Qualitative Study
The Journal of Distance Education produced a study to understand the experience
of instructors as they adapted to teaching online in a new interdisciplinary
graduate program in health promotion studies. (PDF)
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10th Annual CSIA Apex Awards Recognizes eCollege
eCollege, a provider of value-added information services to
the post-secondary education market, announced it won the
Technology Company of the Year award presented by the Colorado
Software and Internet Association (CSIA). Marking the 10th
anniversary, the 2004 CSIA Apex Awards honor Colorado’s
technology leaders in 10 categories. Judges evaluated eCollege
based on the following criteria: Mission and Vision, Market
Size and Strategy, Solid Business Practices, R&D, Product
Innovation and Relevance, Influence on Industry Growth, Financial
Growth, Culture, Employee Retention, Community Involvement,
and Contributions to Customer Success.
Increasing Recruitment and Conversion, Southwestern College Chooses eLearners.com
edGenuiti Worldwide, producer of Web-based enterprise software designed specifically
for higher education, was chosen by Southwestern College, and will be implemented
by eLearners.com. Southwestern College conducted an extensive review for a communication
and enrollment management solution, with the goal of improving the college's
ability to communicate with prospective students.
eLearning Method Integrates McGraw-Hill Content to Improve Student Performance in Math
The Pacific Center for Advanced Technology Training (PCATT),
a consortium of the University of Hawaii Community Colleges,
announced the expansion of its eLearning math pilot to include
leading math content from McGraw-Hill Higher Education. The
breakthrough pilot was developed by EdgePoint Technology using
Cisco Systems, Inc.'s Global Learning Network, which was
developed to support the needs of its Networking Academy
program currently used by more than 470,000 college and high
school students worldwide.
Sun Launches Learning Community Global Portal
The JELC plans to address a variety of issues including
teaching and learning new technologies, vocational retraining,
bridging the digital divide, and achieving global access to
top education materials and courses. To help make this happen,
Sun is convening education stakeholders and decision-makers,
including ministers of education, Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) ministers, K-12 and higher education
institutions, as well as partners such as independent software
vendors, standards boards and humanitarian organizations. (LTI)
Visualization Of Academic Resources
anacubis, a provider of visual research and analysis software
that enables discovery and extraction of key intelligence
from multiple information sources, announced a strategic
alliance agreement with Thomson South-Western. Under the terms
of the agreement, Thomson South-Western will incorporate the
anacubis visualization technology into its re-ACT (Relational
Education – Associating Concepts and Topics) learning system.
The re-ACT system allows the student to RE-organize available
tools and ACT on their learning needs, moving from a linear
learning model where chapters are studied in order to a
relational/associative learning model that focuses on concepts
and how they relate to each other.
Jenzabar Offers New IBM Database
Shortly following the renewal of its long-standing relationship
with IBM, Jenzabar announced that more than 30 percent of
its customer base using IBM’s Informix Dynamic Server
database plan to upgrade to the newest version. Some 300
colleges and universities across the nation run Jenzabar
applications on IBM technology, representing a significant
IBM customer install base in the higher education industry.
Jenzabar CX, a fully scalable ERP solution designed specifically
for higher education, is optimized for the Informix Dynamic
Server database, an online transaction processing (OLTP)
database supporting enterprise and workgroup computing. IBM
released Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.4 to deliver
enhanced performance, scalability, availability and data
security for applications running on the database technology.
Cyber Link Network Connects Schools
A statewide initiative in Ohio proposes to link colleges, universities, and
K-12 schools through a dedicated high-speed fiber-optic network. The Third Frontier
Network, it is expected to become operational for universities early this fall,
and schools like the Toledo Technology Academy, which is in the former DeVilbiss
High School in West Toledo, hope to use it for things such as virtual tours
of industry.
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