Among public two-year institutions, the percentage offering distance learning courses increased from 58 percent in 1995 to 72 percent in 1997-98.
CNN: fyi.com - Study: Public higher education embracing virtual classrooms
Spending on virtually any K-12 educational initiative without having increased student learning as the ultimate priority makes no sense.
The value of learning any particular language is increased by the number of people who already speak it.
Cyber Monday is a marketing term created in 2005 by online retailers after learning that online shopping activity increased the Monday following Black Friday.
FORBES: Online Holiday Sales Hit Nearly $6 Billion for the Week
Now the attention turns to Cyber Monday (tomorrow), a marketing term created in 2005 by online retailers after learning that online shopping activity increased the Monday following Black Friday.
FORBES: Holiday Shoppers Flocking Online Create Record Breaking Sales
Good programs, however, that do customize for these different learning needs and lead to increased student engagement and time on task, should be easier to scale in a digital world as opposed to an analog one.
FORBES: Colorado's Crummy Policies Lead to Crummy Virtual Schools
Add to this landscape powerful education reform initiatives such as overhauled teacher evaluation systems, new Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and an increased focus on social and emotional learning.
FORBES: To Transform the U.S. Education System, Focus on Teacher Effectiveness
At Fiverr we see web designers and graphic artists working with voice over professionals and copywriters, purchasing services from each other in order to craft a better brand, not only learning from one other and profiting from the increased exposure, but more importantly growing as professionals by the exchange of knowledge and the recommendations of fellow vendors.
In other areas of education, increased investment in the helping children with learning differences means that hiring in special education and related areas will be aggressive, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In the middle of the 16th century, the number of universities increased "because of the great humanistic learning that was going on and because of the exploration of the New World, " Mr. Long said.
WSJ: Big Pharma's Real Roots | Wild Medicine | New York Botanical Garden | By Joanne Kaufman
And instead of relying on handwriting recognition that resulted in egg freckles all over the face of Newton, used the Graffiti system that forced a small learning curve on the user in the name of increased accuracy.
ENGADGET: Switched On: Longhorn hardware advances could give PDAs a one-two punch
She urged increased investment by the provincial governments to improve learning conditions in Katchi classes of Primary Schools.
Councillor Mike Whiting, KCC's cabinet member for education, learning and skills, said school place forecasts were reviewed regularly, and the council expected that increased demand had now peaked in some districts.
They also showed that injecting normal mice with extra ghrelin increased the number of synapses in the hippocampus - and improved the animals' performance in several learning and memory tests.
应用推荐