About This Online Distance Learning Site
The site is intended for anyone who is involved in or wants to know more about campus learning and online distance learning (distant learning or distance education).
In particular, it should be useful to students looking for online programs or campus programs, since it has pages about the various programs together with links to schools where they can be studied. The site will also be useful to teachers interested in teaching by distance and online, since it has pages on various aspects of ICT in education.
To start, read the online distance learning, online programs, and teaching by distance and online pages.
A resource for those studying by online distance learning
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.
But the site also contains infomration for those wishing to study on campus. In some cases, links to suitable campus schools are provided as well. In particular, the search boxes anable you to search for campus-based programs and schools.
You can search for campus and online schools using the search box on this page and this link:
A resource for those teaching by online 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 hardware possibilities for online schools, such as wireless communication.
Use of videos on the online 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 distance learning web site
This site is still relatively new and is constantly being revised so as to incorporate pages on areas suggested by readers. If you don't find what you want, please send an email suggesting an inclusion and check back later.
More information about online programs
Check the online distance learning, online programs, and teaching by distance and online pages.
Use this link to find programs and schools.
Use the search facility on this site to find more online subjects and programs.
You can also use this link to search for online degree programs
Remember to compare the admission requirements and course content of several schools before you choose a program.
More information about campus programs
For those students who feel that online learning and distance education is not for them, the web site also has a section on campus programs.
You can also use this link to search for a program or a school near you.
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.
