Prior Learning Assessment for Distance Learners

Many universities and colleges that offer online courses will allow students to earn some credits through Prior Learning Assessment. Here are answers to some of the questions students have about Prior Learning Assessment.

Live and learn with distance learning

Distance learning has come far since the days of late-night TV lectures. We speak to students who have turned their lives around from the comfort of their homes Win your Future: Study for free at the Open University Andrea Goldshaw gets up at 5am, studies for three hours and then goes to work. She is in the second year of a law conversion course with Nottingham Trent University studying under ...

ChinaCast Education Terminates Stockholder Rights Plan and Appointment of New Board Committee Members

BEIJING, Feb. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- ChinaCast Education ("ChinaCast" or the "Company", Nasdaq GS: CAST), a leading post-secondary education and e-learning services ...

Online push for distance learning

Seven IITs and IISc, Bangalore, have already joined hands to prepare curriculum-based web courses in engineering. These courses have been prepared by the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning.

The Sloan Consortium Announces New Leadership Team

Sloan-C Names Bruce Chaloux as Executive Director and CEO; Promotes Kathleen Ives to COONewburyport, MA (PRWEB) February 08, 2012 The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C), an association of individuals, institutions and organizations of higher education engaged in online learning, outlined several major leadership changes in the organization today. Board of Directors President Meg Benke announced the ...