Younger students taking distance learning courses, often part-time to enable them to attain employment and earn money as they study, are on the increase according to ...

In 1840, Sir Issac Pitman, the English inventor of shorthand, came up with an ingenious idea for delivering instruction to a potentially limitless audience: correspondence courses by mail. Pitman's ...

Title: Distance Education Policy Effective Date: June 1, 2024 Responsible Office: Office of the Provost Revision Date: April 23, 2025 This policy applies to William & Mary (W&M) as a whole university, ...

When Lauren McBryde Gray began her graduate studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, she was a chemist working at a biopharmaceutical company on the east coast of the United States, ...

In the past two decades, one of the most important innovations in the US higher education system has been the steady increase in distance education through online courses. College administrators have ...

Brazil’s Ministry of Education (MEC) is expected to announce new rules this month governing higher education courses offered via distance learning (DL), taught predominantly in a virtual environment.

Report from Cathy Cavanaugh explores how online, distance learning can facilitate expanded learning time initiatives in K-12 schools. More on investing in expanded learning time: Putting the Pieces of ...

Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU), located in Portales, NM, is using lecture capture technology to produce and offer distance learning courses to graduate, undergraduate, and high school students.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover education as a sector and as the bedrock of all sectors. In 1970, Coastline Community College became the first college ...

The Education Department wants to collect much more information about distance education courses and the students enrolled in them as part of a broader effort to increase oversight of online programs.

Baylor College of Medicine is approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) to participate in the National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (NC-SARA). As a ...

For courses and programs offered via distance education in which students may be eligible to use Title IV funds (federal financial aid), the Department of Education (ED) requires that institutions ...