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 ...

Schools in Plainfield, Taiwan develop long-distance, high-tech partnership

Class mothers from the Tainan Tzu Chi School in Taiwan, a school that has developed a long-distance learning partnership with Jefferson Elementary School in Plainfield. / Photo courtesy Scot Burkholder and Chen Tian He.

Video Guidance Helps Hazelden Connect Therapists to Patients with Innovative Visual Communications System

Video Guidance, a leading visual communications company, is helping Hazelden, one of the world’s largest and most respected private, nonprofit alcohol and drug addiction treatment centers, visually connect therapists to patients after they have completed their residential program.

Augmented reality could transform Web browsing (video)

What will Web browsing look like in the future? SmartPlanet's Sumi Das explains how augmented reality will help museum paintings turn into talking art teachers and ordinary billboards play movie trailers.

Purdue distance learning looks to grow, remain competitive

A sluggish economy has been a major factor in leading to Purdue’s growth and expansion in the area of online education.