While Garrison and colleagues’ (2000) Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework has generated substantial interest among online learning researchers, it has yet to be subjected to extensive quantitative verification or tested for external validity. Using a sample of students from 55 online MBA courses, the findings of this study suggest strong empirical support for the framework and its ability to predict both perceived learning and delivery medium satisfaction in online management education. The paper concludes with a discussion of potential implications for online management education researchers and those interested in further study of the CoI framework.Read the Full Article

All Alabama high schools will soon be outfitted with distance learning technology that makes classes available to students from one end of the state to the other.Read the Full Article

LAKE HAVASU, Ariz., July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Lake Havasu Unified School District is expanding Havasuonline, the online program of its Performing Plus high school, to serve more students statewide. The expansion is being spurred by the growing demand for the program, which has achieved recognition for its academic rigor, highly experienced teachers, and commitment to partnering with parents to help each child succeed.Read the Full Article

he gravel road, the puppies gated in the yard and the horses grazing in the distance are tell-tale surroundings of a rural Winona County home, not a school.Read the Full Article

Students Look To Cut Down On Trips To CampusRead the Full Article

New CEEP policy brief addresses issues surrounding “cyber schools” in Indiana and the nationRead the Full Article

This spring, in the wake of nearly two years of conflict in which the U.S. Education Department was widely perceived as trying to transform higher education accreditors into enforcers in its campaign to prod colleges to produce better student learning outcomes, an alarmist view of the future of accreditation seemed entirely in order.Read the Full Article

This spring, in the wake of nearly two years of conflict in which the U.S. Education Department was widely perceived as trying to transform higher education accreditors into enforcers in its campaign to prod colleges to produce better student learning outcomes, an alarmist view of the future of accreditation seemed entirely in order.Read the Full Article

ASADENA, Calif., July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Educators, students and lifelong learners alike can now access free content from INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications, as INTELECOM joins a growing number of educational institutions and content providers on iTunes URead the Full Article

WikiREADia is a searchable and editable online encyclopaedia of good practice in reading. As reading is a huge field the number of articles and topics is potentially huge and this is a chance to gather together and share good practice in reading for all audiences (whether that is young children, adult learners, readers in the workplace or setting up a library the list is almost endless).Read the Full Article

Sloodle is an Open Source project which aims to develop and share useful, usable, desireable tools for supporting education in virtual worlds, making teaching easier. Through engagement with an active community of developers and users, the Sloodle project hopes to develop sound pedagogies for teaching across web-based and 3D virtual learning environments. Sloodle integrates the Second Life® multi-user virtual environment and the Moodle learning-management system.Read the Full Article

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ In the latest expansion beyond its main mission of organizing the world's information, Internet search leader Google Inc. hopes to orchestrate more virtual socializing on the Web.Read the Full Article

The nearly 10,000 HP mini-laptops headed for the Fresno Unified School District (FUSD) in California this fall confirm the trend: K-12 schools are eager to put technology into the hands of every student, and a growing number of schools are bypassing full-sized--and more expensive--laptop computers in favor of scaled-down, low-cost machines designed specifically for kids.Read the Full Article

Gregory F. Knapp is the Executive Director, U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Joint Warfighting Center and Joint Training Directorate (J7), Suffolk, Va. As a member of the Senior Executive Service his responsibilities include overall program direction and support to the Joint Training Enterprise. Knapp has over 27 years of government and civilian experience as an innovator in submarine combat systems and developed the first commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS) combat training system for the U.S. Department of Defense. As the head engineer, he developed the first major warfare training center and is the architect for the first national distributed training capability, now known as the Joint National Training Capability (JNTC).Read the Full Article

The efficacy of online learning programs is tied to the suitability of the program in relation to the target audience. Based on the dataset that provides information on student enrollment, academic performance, and demographics extracted from a data warehouse of a large Southwest institution, this study explored the factors that could distinguish students who tend to take online courses from those who do not. Read the Full Article

In the past, copyright and education have evolved together in response to technological advances from the book to the videocassette, and copyright law has been designed to allow educators to use a wide range of media with their students. Stephen Marshall describes how digital communication technologies threaten these accommodations, not as a direct consequence of the technology itself or even of copyright law but rather as a result of the growing prevalence of control technologies aimed at extracting profits from every conceivable use of information. Marshall argues for a rethinking of copyright in the face of Web 2.0 technologies that do not fit into traditional conceptualizations of copyright and suggests that, if educators do not speak up, copyright law will be taken over by corporate forces interested only in profit, to the detriment of educational uses of media.Read the Full Article

Generic Learning Outcomes (GLOs) are intended to enable cultural heritage organisations to be aware of the effectiveness of the environment for learning that they provide and to provide quantitative evidence of the impact of museums libraries and archives on learning, nationally.Read the Full Article

Discussion of public policy and for-profit higher education frequently focuses on the duties of the federal government and accreditors, both of which play a role in permitting institutions’ students to become eligible for federal student aid. But there is of course another key player — the state. It is state agencies that typically authorize any educational institution to operate at all (with or without eligibility for federal funds).Read the Full Article

SALT LAKE CITY -- The world of healthcare information is growing and changing rapidly. Across the nation, healthcare systems and medical facilities continue to improve information systems according to the industry's newest high-tech standards and best practices. Read the Full Article

Online associate, bachelor's and master's degree programs in the electronics and engineering fields to start in JulyRead the Full Article