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By 2015, 25 million post-secondary students in the United States will be taking classes online. And as that happens, the number of students who take classes exclusively on physical campuses will plummet, from 14.4 million in 2010 to just 4.1 million five years later, according to a new forecast released by market research firm Ambient Insight. More
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A community college in Southern California will begin introducing custom textbooks into its courses in a partnership with media company Pearson. MoreHobsons, which sells ApplyYourself, will be offering its higher education customers Turnitin for Admissions, plagiarism detection software from iParadigms, as part of its admissions and enrollment management package. MoreBoston College will be using the reporting technology in Logi Insight for Libraries as part of a new mobile iPhone app to help students find and use library resources. MoreGoogle has introduced a new education-focused area in its Google Apps Marketplace, which provides Web applications that integrate with and extend Google Apps. MoreThe University of Houston flexed its social networking muscles to win a $10,000 donation to its scholarship fund. More
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