Online Education at its Peek: Innovative Online Learning Network to Bring the Best Teachers to Students Everywhere

Brightstorm recently launched an innovative online learning network to provide help to high school students in better understanding important subjects and prepare in a better manner for college by means of video-based courses, developed and taught by expert faculty picked from across the country.

Working Moms Go Back To School – Penn Foster College Offers ‘Project Working Mom’ Scholarships!!

Penn Foster College – an institution well known for its online education programs launched its latest offering “Project Working Mom 2″ on July 16th, 2008 in alliance with eLearners.com to offer full scholarships to single, working mothers. This is the second phase of Penn Foster’s first Project Working Mom, which granted around $2 million in scholarships to about 50,000 applicants.

The SeniorLearning Project – eLearning Platform for Senior Citizens (55+)

An easy and user-friendly eLearning platform has recently been introduced, which is particularly designed for senior citizens above the age of 55. Known as The SeniorLearning Project, the European Commission under the Lifelong Learning Grundtvig Programme is supporting the entire project, which presents free access to realistic, well thought-out, and easy to understand online programs that provides senior citizens the capability to acquire knowledge about the usage of Internet and make use of its services.

Virtual Commencement – 2008 Launched by Strayer University

Strayer University, a well-reputed and accredited higher education institution, which offers degree programs through its traditional campus and over the Internet through online education as well, has launched its online commencement ceremony that has been particularly designed for 2008 online graduates of the university. The ceremony comes complete with keynote speaker, remarks from the president, and a valedictory speaker along with individual acknowledgment of graduates together with their online degree programs.

Cheating in Online Education – Steps to Put a Stop to This Unethical Practice!

Cluttered away in Congress is a 1200 page bill with a small paragraph that could create yet another revolution. According to this bill, online learning can be made more reliable by requiring online institutions to place spy cameras in the residences of their online students. This paragraph is actually meant for putting a stop to cheating in online education. The requirement has been put down for institutions to prove that students acquiring online degree are the same people who actually do the coursework and not others filling in on their programs.

Operation Gold Seal: Diploma Mill Busted!

A family run diploma mill based in upstate Washington DC was busted in James Bond style. The business – with an international presence – supplied phony degrees to people in countries as far as Iran; it sold more than 10,000 online degrees from one bogus St. Regis University and its 120 affiliated institutions, netting over 7 million US dollars. Federal authorities, aided by one professor George Gollin at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, rounded up the scheme which offered fake degrees ranging from high school diplomas to PhDs.

ELearning Event for Moms to Learn About Affiliate Marketing

Just about everything available in our local malls is now on sale over the Internet. May they be clothes, furniture, curtains, computers, cell phones – you name it and its available online. These online sales are usually generated via suggestions of an online sales force, which goes by the name of affiliate sales.

Distance Education – A Blessing for the Men at the Front

After working 18 hours a day at a temperature that often touched 115 degrees, 1st Lt. Jeremiah Manning, 31, who serves as a military engineer at a US air base in Balad, Iraq sat in front of his monitor to attend a virtual class at University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He studied for an online online master’s degree in civil engineering, in which he enrolled last year. He went to Iraq just after his graduation, when the war began in 2003.

ELearning Programs to Learn How to Construct Securer, Stronger Homes to Resist Hurricanes and Earthquakes

The most well-known provider of Best Practices in HomeBuilding, BuildIQ® University, along with Simpson Strong-Tie® has began offering five online courses to teach constructors and their contractors as to how they can use structural connectors to develop homes that are even more secure and strong. The best part is that these courses are available free of cost through BuildIQ University’s online store.