Friday news roundup – 11/28/08
A belated Happy Thanksgiving!
+ Nationally ranked Stetson University College of Law (FL) will offer an online Master of Jurisprudence in Law and Aging. Certain experience qualifications apply for admission.
+ Colorado State University: New online bachelor’s degree completion program in agricultural business.
+ A roundup of broadband education news from IT Business Edge.
+ ”Turkey at the Top” awards from the “The Chronicle Review”. Apparently, the author isn’t excited about the Tennessee Board of Regents chancellor’s vision, which includes mandatory online classes for undergraduates.
+ Backlash in the University of Central Florida student newspaper over UCF’s recent online class fee increases.
+ A Connecticut consultant gives his predictions on future secondary and collegiate-level learning.
Many students will finish high school in three years, and then spend their first year of college taking classes online — “and saving their parents $35,000,” he said.
+ University of Toledo student newspaper has an article about online degree opportunities through the school.
+ Not just one, but two reports on Liberty University’s efforts with distance learning at Green Rock Correction Center in Virginia.
+ The Mid-Plains Community College (NE) “three for free” offer. Three credits, that is.
+ According to this report, Georgia Perimeter College enrolls “the greatest number of distance learning students in Georgia”.
+ The Post-Bulletin in Rochester, MN: “Higher education is more than acquiring credits“.
+ An opinion piece in the City College of San Francisco student newspaper opines that ”virtual classrooms strain brains”.
Have a great weekend!
