Daily Home - ACCESS lets students take courses not offered at their schools
Additionally, students are taking Advanced Placement courses for college credit through ACCESS from teachers certified to teach AP courses.
In other TN Higher Ed news:
WREG-TV Memphis - Tenn. tech schools shorten schedules to save gas
Some Tennessee community colleges and tech schools are moving to a 4-day school week to help commuting students facing a financial roadblock in rising gasoline prices.Four Tennessee Technology Centers and three community colleges are adopting the new class schedules after hearing from students that high gas prices could force them to drop out.
That sounds pretty good to me..
The Chronicle talks about this case causing a tipping point for Distance Learning to finally take off:
"It's getting to the point of either gas or class," says Robbie K. Melton, associate vice chancellor for the Tennessee Board of Regents, where this summer the number of students taking online courses spiked 29 percent, in part because of the high cost of buying gas to drive to campus.Posted by cmwillis at July 19, 2008 11:02 AM | TrackBack