Associate online degree programs | Indiana reports a rise in online enrollment

Posted by bposton on November 29th, 2006 — Posted in associate online degree programs

Indiana is reporting a rise in online enrollments at the colleges and universities in the state.

First we’ll take Perdue.

Dennis McElhoe, Purdue’s director of continuing education and conferencing, said Purdue began offering online courses in the 1999-00 academic school year with two enrolled students. Now, more than 4,700 students are enrolled in the courses.

Next, there’s Indiana U.

Indiana University had 40 graduate-level online courses in the school of education during the 2005-06 academic school year, the coordinator of student and course support reported. The number of students enrolled were not counted.

The university had 83 undergradate online courses and 44 high school online courses as well.

Last year, 1,917 Indiana undergraduates were enrolled in the courses, compared to 1,734 the previous academic school year.

So, even more evidence that online education is surging.

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Engineering Degree Online | Jamacia invests in E-Learning

Posted by bposton on November 5th, 2006 — Posted in engineering degree online

Here’s a recent news story that I thought was pretty interesting enough to post in the online degree dorm room.

The Jamacian government is getting ready to invest $50 million in an an e-learning project, which they hope will
increase the quality of their secondary teaching and learning process.

It’s supposed to be a 3 year program involving 150 schools and 100 public libraries. The money will provide them with
computers and software and internet access, as well as a comprehensive set of standard ICT-based instructional materials
for teachers and students

This effort is to help Jamaica keep up with the rest of the world in e-learning, but a big problem there is the demand
for Internet access, which is low compared to developed countries. To address this the strategy is to increase the use
of the Internet in schools, which will increased the internets exposure to students and their parents.

Way to go, Jamacia, fire up that internet, ‘Mon’ :-)

Ben

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