online Index
December 01, 2008
The economy is driving everyone crazy. But guess where else the economy is driving Americans? Online learning. The 2008 Sloan Survey of Online Learning shows that online enrollment has increased 12% since last year. After surveying 2,500 colleges and universities, they found that approximately 3.94 million students were enrolled online, which is a little more than 20% of the total student population.
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November 27, 2008
Didn't choose Yale or MIT but wish you had? It's not too late. And you can go for free. What? That's right. As you consider your educational options over Thanksgiving, and especially if you're a non-traditional student, don't think you have to be left outside in the intellectual cold. Open courses will warm you right up. And you may not even have to have a book as large as the one pictured here.
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November 19, 2008
In BusinessWeek's most recent rankings of business schools, the University of Chicago, Harvard, and Northwestern took top spots for their full-time MBA programs. Business schools at UCLA, Emory, and USC, meanwhile, took top honors for their part-time programs.
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August 26, 2008
Interested in a filmmaking career? Think you have to go to Hollywood right away? The truth is, film schools are everywhre. Schools in every state offer film programs, and many are even offered online.
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August 26, 2008
Online design students learn all the fundamentals of web design, including authoring, scripting, design, and e-commerce. They master project management, audio and visual capabilities, digital image manipulation, and animation.
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June 05, 2008
SUNY Plattsburgh is the first school to use Facebook not to simply have a fan page or new student group, but to have fun via an application they built to promotoe their school.
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