She said the university was using technology to create an "edgeless university" so students could access learning resources wherever they were.
At the University of South Carolina, many professors and students are involved in Service Learning efforts.
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Enhancing the University's philosophy of open-ended exploration, students discover new opportunities for learning with mobile computing, sharing ideas and collaborating with peers and faculty while learning how to utilize technology effectively in their academic professional and personal lives.
The University of Arizona offers training in them for medical students and a two-year distance-learning course for doctors and nurses.
The students are participating in an annual culture and language learning trip to China through the University of Maryland's Confucius Institute.
It is possible to offer affordable courses, provide an excellent student experience, adhere to university quality systems, achieve fantastic results, and give students the opportunity to gain a credential while learning online.
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The printed book was a much more powerful learning innovation, because it allowed students to get a good higher education at a university lacking rare manuscripts or world-class scholars.
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In his speeches, Mr Mbeki condemns the collapse of the culture of learning: the teachers' unions that strike for implausible pay increases, the students at Venda University who burned down campus offices because the administration would not give them 30 cans of beer each for a party.
Owned by publicly traded Apollo Group, University of Phoenix enrolls some 400, 000 students on 200 campuses nationwide, and has a giant, highly profitable distance learning division.
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