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Saving on College Costs

Tuition increases enacted by most colleges and universities across the United States last year, combined with soaring fuel prices and a rising cost of living have all converged to create the perfect storm of problems for college students everywhere, many of whom could just barely afford to attend in the first place, and who now are having to reconsider their choices. The average tuition and associated costs per...

Education Transformation

Do you remember life before the internet? Sometimes it can be far too difficult to think back to a time when you did not have everything right at your fingertips just a click away. I remember when the encyclopedia was the best tool for finding facts and information to answer all sorts of questions. Now, we depend so greatly on Google to figure out the answers to our questions and more. Yes, the internet...

I Learn Online

Getting an education used to mean having to be at a certain institution at a specified time to learn what you were expected to learn. This goes for all ages and grade levels. School was school was school and there was not really any other option aside from homeschooling. Now, things have changed for the better. All types of students can get an incredible education right from their own home thanks to online...

On May 30, 2007, iTunes U was announced by Apple Inc in Cupertino, California. The new service, available through iTunes, would manage, and distribute access to educational media content and files for students of a college or university. Non-students and ordinary Internet users could also access the information, contributing to the “open university” project.

Schools and other institutions receive their own iTunes U sites nested inside of Apple’s iTunes Store infrastructure. There is no cost incurred for anyone who is either uploading or downloading material. Course lectures, foreign language lessons, science lab demonstrations, campus tours, and sports event highlights are all provided by qualifying “two- and four-year accredited, degree-granting, public or private colleges and universities in the United States, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and United Kingdom.” Apple is strict about the regulation of college and university involvement in iTunes U.

Online Education Hires Steve Poizner as CEO

The Encore Career Institute, is a new and emerging online education company. ECI this morning made an announcement that it has successfully raised $15 million in Series A funding. The company’s co-founder, Steve Poizner, will serve as CEO to the board of the new entity. Poizner is a well known American businessman and Republican politician. Elected State Insurance Commissioner of California in 2006, Poizner worked in Silicon Valley as a high tech entrepreneur, founding both SnapTrack, Inc. and Strategic Mapping, Inc. prior to his political career.

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