http://www.guidetoonlineschools.com/blog Current Trends in Distance Learning and Online Education Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:56:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is not an article about how to find enough scholarships to pay for your education. This is not just a spammy title meant to grab your attention. This is also not the traditional college class. There is a new idea floating around out there in the ... http://www.guidetoonlineschools.com/blog/2008/09/26/take-college-classes-for-free/ Alert to college applicants: your Facebook profile may be counting against you! As many as 10 percent of admissions officers have looked at students' profiles to help decide whether to admit a student or not. A press release by Kaplan, known for their test prep services as well ... http://www.guidetoonlineschools.com/blog/2008/09/18/admissions-officers-evaluating%e2%80%a6-facebook/ Chances are, getting your high school diploma has not adequately prepared you for college. A recent study by Strong American Schools has reported that 34% of all students in public colleges need to take remedial classes. http://www.guidetoonlineschools.com/blog/2008/09/16/many-high-school-students-not-prepared-for-college/ College students can rest a little easier tonight knowing that New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is looking out for them. On September ninth, eight student loan companies signed an agreement to abide by stricter marketing standards. Seven of those companies, Campus Door, EduCap, GMAC Bank, Graduate Loan ... http://www.guidetoonlineschools.com/blog/2008/09/12/campus-door-educap-gmac-bank-graduate-loan-associates-nelnet-nextstudent-xanthus-and-my-rich-uncle-student-loans-have-agreed-to-a-marketing-code-of-conduct/ The congressionally-authorized National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies hasn’t received any of its promised funding, according to an article published today in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The center, the establishment of which was heavily supported by the Digital Promise Project and the Federation ... http://www.guidetoonlineschools.com/blog/2008/08/22/ed-tech-research-center-budget-neglected-by-congress/ The RIAA has long emphasized the importance of universities’ cooperation in helping them quash file-sharing, which often flourishes on college campuses. But as the size of the RIAA’s legal apparatus grows, so too does the number of DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown requests received by college bureaucrats. The ... http://www.guidetoonlineschools.com/blog/2008/08/20/colleges-fed-up-with-riaa/ In the post about Texbook Torrents a while back we mentioned an ideal model for textbook distribution and pricing. Publishing firm Flat World Knowledge will follow the same multi-format pricing schedule that we recommended when they launch their textbook line in January 2009. The materials will be offered ... http://www.guidetoonlineschools.com/blog/2008/08/18/the-arrival-of-open-source-textbooks/ According to Stanford’s Computer Science course catalog for the fall, students will have the opportunity to take a course in “iPhone Application Programming.” The class, cs193P, is so far academia’s first response to Apple’s release of the iPhone SDK, which has allowed countless programmers to capitalize on the phone’s success. ... http://www.guidetoonlineschools.com/blog/2008/08/15/stanford-to-offer-iphone-programming-course/ A poll released today by the Hoover Institution covering perceptions of public institutions shows that most parents are receptive to publicly-funded online learning for high school students. http://www.guidetoonlineschools.com/blog/2008/08/14/hoover-institution-poll-shows-approval-for-online-secondary-schooling/ Kelsey, like many towns scattered throughout Middle America, is a quaint affair of some 53,000 souls. The only difference between Kelsey and the thousands of towns just like it that dot the American landscape is that Kelsey isn’t real: it’s a virtual sandbox created for the purpose of ... http://www.guidetoonlineschools.com/blog/2008/08/13/university-of-phoenix-uses-virtual-world-to-teach-students/