The National Dialogue on Higher Education Accessibility and Affordability Grows
Lately I have been giving a lot of thought to accessibility. More specifically, I have been asking myself and others if accessibility can ever really exist if affordability isn’t also present. Turns out, I’m hardly alone in weighing this and related issues. And, it seems, more and more educators and institutional leaders are giving voice to […]
Through Online Outreach, Volunteer Educators Aim to Lift the Resources in At-Risk Regions
If you’re like me, from time to time you wonder how in the world an education gets delivered and received in parts of the globe where the day-to-day conditions are, to say the least, miserable. I got my MBA online in the United States. It was a challenge to balance working full-time, buying a home, planning […]
Study Finds Majority of Corporations Using Online Learning to Build Leadership and Management Skills
More and more corporations are implementing online learning in support of ongoing employee training. That, at least, is the conclusion from a survey report published by Virtual College in the U.K. From the report: Research showed that online learning technologies are increasingly becoming a vital part of standard working practices and that more and more […]
Distance Learning: Here for Good
When this, our social media site, was initiated several years ago, much time and space was devoted to advocating for the merits and possibilities of distance learning. That was because not that long ago, some educators and students had reasonable concerns that an online education could measure up to a traditional classroom experience. Now here we are […]
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