About This Online and Distance Learning Site
The site is intended for anyone who is involved in or wants to know more about campus learning and online and distance learning (distant learning or distance education). It should be useful to students looking for online programs or campus programs, and to teachers interested in teaching by distance.
A resource for those studying by online and distance learning
Find a school near you
This web site is intended as a resource for anyone wanting to obtain online training and online degrees. It provides advice on a range of distance courses, including online graduate programs, online PhD programs, and online certificate courses. It has advice on studying at an online college or online university, information about learning styles, about healthy posture, and even includes details of how you can obtain free online learning.
A resource for those teaching by online and distance learning
The web site seeks to show how new ICTs - e.g., open educational resources, open source, Web 2.0, blogs, wikis, social networking, social bookmarking and other social software - can be used for online education study (e-learning) or to conduct classes online in distance courses. Or how such ICTs enable collaborative teaching. It also touches on some of the new ICT harware possibilities for online schools, such as wireless communication.
Use of videos on the online and distance learning web site
You will find quite a lot of videos on this site. They are rather small, so you may want to click on the "full screen" icon (if they have one). When you want to return to "normal screen" just click on the "escape" key.
Feedback and revision of the online and distance learning web site
This site has just been launched and is constantly being revised. If you don't find what you want, please leave a comment/query on the relevant forum and check back later.
Online Learning More Effective
A report released in June 2009 by the U.S. Department of Education, which analyzed 46 studies comparing online learning to face-to-face education, concludes that the former is more effective - at least at university level.
Academics and administrators involved in online education welcomed this report as vindication of what they have known (or believed) for many years. Anaheim University's Chancellor Dr. Garnet Birch said,
"I'm so excited that the Department of Education and the Secretary of Education have confirmed what we have been aware of at Anaheim University for over a decade. If you hire expert professors to teach online and recruit highly qualified students from around the world, you can expect to see results that are not only equal to what you might find in a regional on-campus based program, but superior. America needs a 21st Century approach towards higher education that matches the lifestyles of young homemakers, teachers and business people who are pursuing their education while working and fulfilling their family responsibilities at the same time. We are ecstatic to see that the U.S. Dept. of Education has found that online education is every bit as effective as on-campus education. We have seen first-hand our graduates out-perform their peers in the workplace and this report is in line with what we have experienced."
Download the Department of Education Report "Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning" here:
http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/evidence-based-practices/finalreport.pdf
About Anaheim University
Anaheim University is a nationally accredited online institution of higher learning headquartered in Anaheim, California. The University offers online Masters and Certificate programs in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), online MBA programs and Online Certificate, Diploma and MBA (Online Green MBA) programs in Sustainable Management.
