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 ...

The U.S. Department of Education agreed last month to let the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges of Technology accredit distance-education programs. Last year, the committee that ...

When Governor Inslee’s March 12 COVID-19 announcement prompted school closures across Washington State, distance learning took on immediate importance. Schools, teachers, parents and students have had ...

Good distance learning programs can range from well-designed and well-written text to streaming video and accompanying media of various types. But media alone d'es not offer guidance and personal ...

The Dallas County Community College District had grown its online learning programs organically for two decades when Terry Di Paolo, executive dean of online instructional services, decided it was ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

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.

Distance learning programs aid many communities, but they are arguably most valuable to migrant students. By enabling students to complete coursework when they’re on the road, educators have been able ...

The U.S. Navy has announced Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) distance learning defense-focused master’s degree program opportunities for fiscal year 2019, including the Executive Master of Business ...

America has the highest prison rates of any nation in the world, but we do a poor job at providing opportunities for prisoners to turn their lives around using the time they spend in jail. A dwindling ...

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