FAIRBANKS — The number of English-language learning students in the nation rose from 3.2 million during the 1995-1996 school year to 5.1 million in the 2005-2006 school year.

NAU seeks to triple online enrollment to 10,000 students (Rapid City Journal)

Robert Paxton will be responsible for one of National American University’s most important growth areas when he starts work next week as the distance learning campus president.

Online -- another way of learning at SCC (The Reporter)

More and more college students are taking classes in the virtual world rather than the lecture hall -- and Solano Community College is no exception to the online education trend.Many college-age students, like day-care center operator Vicky Davis of Benicia, are learning exclusively over the Internet.

ChildCare Education Institute Announces Articulation Agreement with Ashford University Giving College Credit to Child ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

ChildCare Education Institute , a distance training institution dedicated exclusively to the child care industry, is proud to announce today an articulation agreement with Ashford University.

EAC awarded grant from U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (Eastern Arizona Courier)

Eastern Arizona College is the recent recipient of a $405,830 rural development grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The grant, part of USDA’s Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant program, will be used to focus on funding end-user equipment that operates via telecommunications that connect students and teachers (or medical providers and patients) in separate rural areas. The only ...