Category Archives: Online Colleges

May 04

New Jersey task force recommendations stress high schools "teach, not test"

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New Jersey task force recommendations stress high schools "teach, not test"
Students, for example, could take courses online or attend college while still in high school. “Schools do have to be willing to go beyond the status quo,” said Timothy Noguiera, superintendent of the Ocean-Monmouth Educational Services Commission, …
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Pennsylvania Community Colleges First To Adopt Voluntary Framework Of …
AACC expects to make the VFA data system fully operational in 2013 and is developing the tool to allow colleges to upload and share their VFA data. Once this system is online, colleges will be able to benchmark their own institutional data against data …
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Apr 20

Latest Online Colleges News

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DEA Agents Recommend College to Individuals Wishing to Enter Criminal Justice …
My Criminal Justice Careers is an online resources where individuals can go to be connected with online colleges or universities that can help them gain the necessary skills. Provo, UT (PRWEB) April 17, 2012 DEA Agents gave a lecture at Kansas State …
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Elite colleges move online, give the goods away for free
Princeton, The University of Pennsylvania, The University of Michigan, and Stanford are now offering online courses…for free. The classes will open doors to people who wouldn't have had them opened otherwise. Silicon Valley CEO Ben Nelson is pooling …
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Top 12 Ways Facebook's “Groups for Schools” Will Change Higher Ed
While schools have been experimenting with various platforms to share information online (from learning platforms like Sakai to homegrown solutions), nothing's risen to the front of the pack yet. Having a standard platform might really kick off a whole …
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Apr 16

Pug Dog Earns Online MBA – A Cautionary Tail

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geteducated.com Chester, a pug dog, is awarded an online MBA from Rochville University, a distance learning college suspected of being a degree mill. Chester, the mascot of Get Educated, a group that rates and ranks online colleges, pays 9 for his degree. Alas, the pug cant get a job because his college lacks proper accreditation. Fraud involving distance learning colleges is a worldwide epidemic. GetEducated.com offers a free service, The Diploma Mill Police, to help online students avoid education scams and help employers screen resumes for credential fraud. Read more at http
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Mar 25

BestCollegesOnline.com to Award $1000 to the 2012 Online College Professor of …

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BestCollegesOnline.com to Award 00 to the 2012 Online College Professor of …
Student guide to the best accredited online colleges and universities, BestCollegesOnline.com, opens nominations in search for the online college professor of the year. By BestCollegesOnline.com HOUSTON, March 22, 2012 — /PRNewswire-iReach/ — The …
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BestCollegesOnline.com to Award 00 to the 2012 Online College Professor of …
Student guide to the best accredited online colleges and universities, BestCollegesOnline.com, opens nominations in search for the online college professor of the year. By PR Newswire HOUSTON, March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — The explosive growth …
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Online colleges win reprieve in federal law backpedaling
All colleges and universities with online programs are required to seek permission if they wish to offer their courses in all 50 states. For online institutions, if they gain such approval, they are able to register students in states without any …
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Rahm Emanuel to middle class: Don't leave for better schools
The message accompanied a promise, issued during an exclusive interview with the Chicago Sun-Times on Friday — the same day the mayor announced he was doubling the size of an International Baccalaureate diploma program in the Chicago Public Schools.
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