Distance Learning

A two-year engineering program will begin next fall at John Tyler Community College with help from a $400,000 grant from Altria. Students who earn the first engineering associate degrees at John Tyler in 2011 will be able to go on to an engineering bachelor's degree at the community college in...  

A two-year engineering program will begin next fall at John Tyler Community College, with help from a $400,000 grant from Altria. If all goes acording to plan, associate-degree engineering students will also be able to earn a bachelor's degree in engineering through Tyler by taking distance...  

BISBEE — Teleradiology will soon be joining other telemedicine services offered at Copper Queen Community Hospital. The hospital has been awarded a $184,822 grant under the Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant Program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.  

TIRUCHI: Bharathidasan University has received 76 applications from various parts of Tamil Nadu as a response to its initiative to engage franchisees for offering its Centre for Distance Education programmes.  

The move toward Internet-based learning shows no signs of slowing. Distance learning has become a major component in professional development coursework. The University of Phoenix, the largest in the country, exists primarily online.  

Contact North/Contact Nord, Northern Ontario’s distance education and training network has re-opened its access centre in Matheson. The centre is located in the Joseph [...]  

HealthBiz blogger Carly Harrington reports that Claiborne County Hospital and Nursing home in Tazewell, Tenn. has received a federal grant to implement a distance learning program.  

NEW YORK, Oct. 6, 2008 -- SEMPO Institute, the online distance learning division of SEMPO, , http://www.sempo.org/, today announced it has enrolled its 1,000th student, a milestone achievement for the training program which launched in January, 2007.  

A group of sixth- and seventh-grade students at Trinity Catholic Elementary School are learning Mandarin Chinese through a distance learning program.  

$245,304 Distance Learning and Telemedicine grant to expand interactive distance learning educational opportunities for residents of Gulf and Franklin counties.  

CAIRO — As Frank Hines walked into his poetry class at Cairo-Durham High School Friday, his instructor, Dr. Deb Herodes, greeted him. “You’re a little late,” she said. Hines replied that he was finishing a soccer game the period before.  

NOOSE WAS further tightened around former vice-chancellor of CS Azad University for Agriculture and Technology Dr BK Singh with the university lodging an FIR against him for alleged irregularities in a distance education programme he had introduced.  

ROGERS -- Adult education courses in English as a second language and GED preparation will soon be available via distance learning.  

GEORGE TOWN: Wawasan Open University (WOU) has stepped up its recruitment drive to rope in more professionals from multinational corporations in the northern region to study in its distance learning programmes.  

ROGERS — The Adult Education program at Northwest Arkansas Community College is one of 12 across the state selected to participate in a pilot project to deliver instruction through distance education. (Benton County Daily Record)