Distance Learning

Minnesota's largest private university to launch educational programs online

When the Massachusetts Institute of Technology offered its first free online course this spring, Ashwith Rego jumped at the chance to learn from some of the world’s leading researchers — without leaving his home in India.

Sonic Foundry, Inc., the trusted market leader for video management and academic, enterprise and event webcasting, today announced the company’s Mediasite platform will be used to live webcast the 28th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning, held this week at the Monona Terrace and Convention Center in Madison, Wis.

When the Massachusetts Institute of Technology offered its first free online course this spring, Ashwith Rego jumped at the chance to learn from some of the world's leading researchers – without leaving his home in India.

Having just finished my very first online lecture on the history of the internet, I am both heartened and dismayed by the experience.

An online-only private university headquartered in the Eastern Panhandle is skewing West Virginia's college enrollment numbers, a state higher education official said.

Wake Forest University is continuing to explore the rapidly changing world of online higher education, but it's not yet ready to join other prestigious universities in offering free online classes.

Florida, not known as a higher-education innovator, nevertheless might become the first state in the nation to open an all-online public university.

Edx, founded by Harvard and MIT, will host two not-for-credit UC Berkeley courses this fall.

“AH, you’re a professor. You must learn so much from your students.”