Younger students taking distance learning courses, often part-time to enable them to attain employment and earn money as they study, are on the increase according to ...

When Lauren McBryde Gray began her graduate studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, she was a chemist working at a biopharmaceutical company on the east coast of the United States, ...

In the past two decades, one of the most important innovations in the US higher education system has been the steady increase in distance education through online courses. College administrators have ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover education as a sector and as the bedrock of all sectors. In 1970, Coastline Community College became the first college ...

Brazil’s Ministry of Education (MEC) is expected to announce new rules this month governing higher education courses offered via distance learning (DL), taught predominantly in a virtual environment.

From Mississippi to South Dakota, states are seeing increased enrollment in courses that rely on at least one form of technology as colleges expand online and hybrid options.

Baylor College of Medicine is approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) to participate in the National Council for State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements (NC-SARA). As a ...

The world of snail-mail, shorthand typing and correspondence courses is a far cry from today's range of certified online courses, Skype language lessons and mobile app-based education. Distance ...

Between 1957 and 1982, “Sunrise Semester” broadcasted lectures from NYU faculty to the general public. Screenshot via YouTube In May 1962, the New York Times profiled Cora Gay Carr, a 37-year-old ...

The Education Department wants to collect much more information about distance education courses and the students enrolled in them as part of a broader effort to increase oversight of online programs.

On Oct. 1 of this fiscal year, many NCO's expecting to attend the Advance Leaders Common Core (ALC), formerly called Basic Noncommissioned Officers Course (BNCOC),Phase 1, received notification that ...

For courses and programs offered via distance education in which students may be eligible to use Title IV funds (federal financial aid), the Department of Education (ED) requires that institutions ...