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online education
1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: Monarch Media, Santa Cruz, California
Online education and training continue to grow in popularity. It costs less for students to get bachelor’s and master’s degrees online. Employers, too, save money by arranging for employees to take training courses online and on their own time. Monarch Media has provided e-learning solutions, including online and mobile courses, educational software development, learning management systems,
1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: Examville, New York City
Examville is a global online education platform for user-to-user collaborative learning. The platform provides an open, virtual meeting place to connect teachers with students of any age or nationality while offering access to materials from major educational publishers.
Forbes Column 2010: The Knock-On Effect Of Global English
Already, people in rural India are tutoring U.S. students in math and science. Read more in The Knock-On Effect Of Global English.
Deal Radar 2010: Rasmussen
Where will the jobs be in the 21st century, and how can the next generation of people prepare to perform them? Several Entrepreneur Journeys interviews with executives of online or blended universities have offered their perspective on how to help people, on a large scale, learn what they need to know to work in today’s world.
Educating Working Adults: Walden University President Jonathan Kaplan (Part 6)
SM: I am observing that you have a segment out there, which is teachers who are teaching middle school and high school math and science without significant math and science backgrounds. If you take that segment of teachers and teach them how to teach with technology, then you have a very interesting segment. That is
Educating Working Adults: Walden University President Jonathan Kaplan (Part 5)
SM: As long as a university is regionally accredited, it qualifies for financial aid? JK: Yes. There are other specific requirements along as well, but that is the most important issue.
Educating Working Adults: Walden University President Jonathan Kaplan (Part 4)
SM: You said that your students are working adults. Do they take your programs out of convenience? JK: While there is a level of flexibility and convenience in distance learning, it is also hard. It is challenging to sit down for school after a full day of work. Students spend dinner with their families, put
Educating Working Adults: Walden University President Jonathan Kaplan (Part 3)
SM: Your focus is to train nurse educators but not nurse practitioners, is that correct? JK: Yes. We do not have a nursing licensing program. There are a lot of programs like that out there. Those programs have a challenge finding enough educators.
