Beware eCollege Interface is Old School

From an instructor/user perspective I wouldn’t bet on eCollege—after seeing the system again after several years not much has changed. It looks like it did when it started. My experience comes from using the system in the beginning with a previous client then again...

FREE or Nearly FREE Software You Must Have!

 Active Collab: http://www.activecollab.com/ activeCollab is a web based, open source collaboration and project management tool. Something worth checking out if you need a place for a team to collaborate on active projects. Best of all it is a 100% free!...

Website Resource, Pew Internet & American Life Project

If you haven’t visited this site then you should because it provides you with a wealth of information. They’ve recently published four reports ranging from online activities to online health search trends. In addition the site provides you with an interesting...

Internet Bubble: Is it Happening Again? Look Familiar

Is anyone else having deja’vu with all the recent companies getting money for ideas that have been done before and failed. Additionally when I look at the companies raising 7.5 million dollars for simple/done ideas with no business model. Here’s one recent...

Outsourcing Teaching/Tutoring of American Education

Its not a new idea but it is coming of age. Recently I read an article about a company who will be tutoring you kids—and this takes the idea of outsourcing to an entirely different level. A company called TutorVista has gained business with US schools to tutor rural...

More than 70 Million Adults Want to Head Back to School

Degrees of Opportunity, a new national study of the attitudes of adult Americans toward continuing their education, indicates that more than half of American adults age 25 to 60 would like to pursue additional education—the equivalent of more than 70 million adult...
USA Funds Awards Grant for Mississippi College-Planning Web Site

USA Funds Awards Grant for Mississippi College-Planning Web Site

USA Funds® awards an $80,000 grant to develop a Web site to help Mississippi middle- and high-school students and their parents prepare for, apply to and pay for postsecondary-education programs. The Web site will serve as a comprehensive clearinghouse of information...