The Department of Education has added five institutions to a program that waives a key rule so that distance-education providers can offer students federal financial aid. Called the Distance Education ...

Representatives of the six U.S. regional accrediting bodies have finalized a set of recommendations for building and evaluating online-education programs. But the recommendations won’t become ...

The Education Department wants to collect much more information about distance education courses and the students enrolled in them as part of a broader effort to increase oversight of online programs.

The U.S. Department of Education (ED) last month proposed new guidelines to strengthen its oversight and data-gathering practices for distance education. According to a January proposal outlining ...

The Department of Education revisited proposed changes to asynchronous clock, credit-hour, and subscription-based programs in distance education. In previous years, the Department of Education’s final ...

Distance education began with correspondence coursework sent through the postal mail services and continues today. Most modern distance education uses technological means such as computers, the ...

Whenever you're planning to pursue an online/distance education degree or certificate, you need to ask yourself plenty of hard questions, such as whether you have the discipline to succeed in an ...

The House Education Committee has approved a slimmed-down version of a measure that would overhaul distance-learning ...

Alejtin Berisha is a serial entrepreneur from Kosovo who is changing the educational landscape around the globe, both in-person and throughout the distance learning ecosystem. Berisha is the Founder ...

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