Online Course Financial Assessment and Management will discuss the following:

Binshan Lin and John Vassar at the College of Business Administration, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, suggest that online learning communities have many benefits because they offer learners social networks to effectively and easily acquire and share knowledge among themselves. However, key to success, they have found is individual self-governance.

Project Working Mom…and Dads, Too! helps to remove the barriers many people face when deciding whether to go back to school, including the hurdles of money, time, and confidence. The scholarships provided by the participating schools allow the recipients to go back to school at no cost, eliminating the huge financial aid burden.

A study led by a team of education researchers from Mayo Clinic and published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) concludes that Internet-based education generally is effective.

The lives of today’s college students have always included computers and the Internet. That technology now has moved from the ether into instruction.

Casio America, Inc. announced the addition of an on-line training course, “Using the fx-9860G Slim”. This course will teach users how to use Casio’s newest graphing calculator, the fx-9860G Slim.

Classes focus on economic, social issues both at home and abroad

Pokemon USA, Inc., has won a Distinguished Achievement Award given annually by the Association of Educational Publishers to recognize the most outstanding materials in the field of teaching and learning.

Student Demand Grows for Flexible, Personalized Learning Options

Pearson, the international education and information company, announces that it has agreed to acquire eCollege® (Nasdaq: ECLG), a leader in the fast-growing US online distance learning market.