e-Learning Pundit

Hello from Felixstowe, UK.  Nice ring to it, eh?

Heritage University, a not-for-profit, private university in Washington: “Master of Education in Professional Studies in Teaching and Learning with Professional Certification”.

Iowa State University:  “five new graduate certificate programs and two new master of engineering degrees.”

University of Maryland University College:  “BS or MS degree in Cybersecurity, or an MS in Cybersecurity Policy completely online..”.  More here.

Horticulture Centre of the Pacific (Canada): Horticulture Technician Certificate Program.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Win a seat in a distance learning course worth £595 from Open University in the UK.  Hat Tip: about.com

University of Houston-Victoria: new master’s concentration in applied behavior analysis, online.

A new online and very affordable, teacher endoresment program comes to AZ.  Certain prerequisites apply.

Inspiration to the nth degree: “Out of the dark: Exeter man earned Ph.D, became teacher after losing sight“.

More free online journalism classes?  Certainly, and this includes an international flair!  Cool insight into Peer 2 Peer University.

GetEducated.com ranks online masters degrees in psychology.

From the UK:

…The University of London claims to offer the cheapest degrees in the country via its distance-learning qualifications…

Cheapter than Open University?

From Capitol Hill, Senator Tom Harkin holds hearings on for-profit colleges.  We should see interesting reactions from Ashford and Kaplan, schools in Harkin’s home state.  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has additional coverage.

Here’s a look into distance engineering graduate programs at the University of Arizona. 

Distance learning and Christian universities are the subject of this USA Today story.

An online course and its creator win a $1,000 award.

North of the border at Loyalist College in Ontario, Canada, an online gerontology program is making headlines.

You’ve heard of Moodle and Second Life.  Now meet Sloodle.

Geek.com reviews the Securexam remote procter.

A familiar theme, but this time in the UK: university funding.  For comparative purposes, approximately 1.45 USD = 1 £ Sterling.

More on Einztein in the Huffington Post.

It appears for-profit colleges may be light-years ahead of non-profits when discussing the E-textbooks domain.

Free Microsoft online training vouchers are also available in Florida.

Check out this report on a distance learning course from the Society for Companion Animal Studies (SCAS) in the UK covering pet loss support.  Interesting, indeed.

University of Nebraska now has a consolidated site for all of it’s online degrees and certificates, which currently total more than 80. 

A career change is in the cards for this 49 year-young producer.

More online courses of the Tolkien and fantasy variety are coming to the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff.

The Texas AgriLife Extension Service at Texas A&M University, College Station, has low-cost, online courses on “rainwater collection for livestock and wildlife”. 

Somebody out there may find this useful:  Griffith University in Australia offers free online franchising classes.  Certificates of completion are available.

Mississippi State University extends its special MBA tuition rates to a much wider military and veteran audience.

The special $353.50 per-credit-hour rate–as compared to $502.50 rate for all others–now is available to the following Southeastern military groups:

–Active-duty personnel;

–Active-duty personnel serving outside the region, but maintaining a legal residence within the area, as designated in the federal Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act of 1940;

–National Guard members;

–Military Reserve members (all services);

–U.S. veterans; and

–Active-duty or veteran MSU alumni.

How ’bout them Bulldogs?!?!

Michigan State University teaches equine-related courses over the web too?  You bet, and now offering classes in Spanish in conjunction with Universidad Mayor (Chile).