SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Exam halls at colleges and universities across the country have been going virtual thanks to the remote proctoring capabilities contained within McGraw-Hill Tegrity Campus. Today, McGraw-Hill Education launched McGraw-Hill Tegrity Remote Proctoring, a new service providing the growing number of schools offering online and blended courses with a quick path to securely and efficiently administer exams and other assessments over the Internet. Students enrolled in online or blended courses can now take exams from home or any Internet-enabled location, giving colleges and universities true "test anywhere" capabilities.

To meet the needs of today's students, many institutions are offering online programs and degrees as well as blended courses that combine traditional face-to-face classes with online-based discussions and assignments. Despite the compelling and virtual nature of their offerings, when exam time comes around, institutions have been forced to return to physical on-campus halls or off-campus proctoring sites to comply with industry standards. For many online and blended learning students, the distance between these testing sites and their homes means they are required to travel hours and pay hundreds of dollars to complete an exam. These unexpected costs can be a real challenge for many students.

McGraw-Hill Tegrity Remote Proctoring alleviates this burden by enabling schools to securely administer exams in any location. Now, within an end-to-end secure environment, students can log in, authenticate themselves and take and submit their exams from the comfort of their homes, coffee shops or any Internet-connected location. The security and integrity of the testing environment is ensured through Remote Proctoring's proprietary technology and its seamless integration with leading "lock down" browsers such as Respondus LockDown. Thanks to McGraw-Hill Tegrity Remote Proctoring, students are finally liberated from the geographic and economic limitations of traditional proctor sites.

"Remote proctoring offers instructors a new world of possibilities for exams and assessments and we're seeing a number of universities create unique curricula based around web tools like remote proctoring and video-based lecture capture," said Tom Malek, vice president of Learning Solutions and Services for McGraw-Hill Higher Education. "We've heard from deans and faculty alike that remote proctoring also provides students greater flexibility to complete exams on their own schedule without having to travel long distances or worry about fees associated with proctored sites. This is especially important as today's student body includes more and more non-traditional students, balancing work, family and other responsibilities."

Laramie County Community College in Wyoming has used the McGraw-Hill Tegrity Remote Proctoring solution in more than 15 programs including nursing, public speaking, business management and exercise science courses. According to LCCC Nursing Instructor Valerie Millsap, MSN, RN, "Remote Proctoring has provided our students much more flexibility to complete exams on their schedule, without having to travel far distances to proctored class environments, while still maintaining the integrity of course assessments and curriculum."

McGraw-Hill Tegrity Remote Proctoring has also allowed Laramie County Community College to expand its assessment capabilities. Instructors now create more interactive exams allowing students to leverage audio and visual assets in place of generic multiple choice questions. Students are now being assessed beyond standard knowledge regurgitation, focusing on performance, applied learning and comprehension.

McGraw-Hill Tegrity Remote Proctoring continues McGraw-Hill Education's tradition of delivering cutting-edge technology products and services that strengthen learning results. To learn more about McGraw-Hill Tegrity Remote Proctoring, please visit: http://www.tegrity.com/products/remote-proctoring.

About McGraw-Hill EducationMcGraw-Hill Education is a content, software and services-based education company that draws on its more than 100 years of educational expertise to offer solutions, which improve learning outcomes around the world. McGraw-Hill is the adaptive education technology leader with the vision for creating a highly personalized learning experience that prepares students of all ages for the world that awaits. The company has offices acrossNorth America,India,China,Europe, theMiddle EastandSouth America, and makes its learning solutions available in more than 65 languages. For additional information, visit http://www.mheducation.com.

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To bring fineness into the overall delivery of online education, Nixon University is adopting the use of MOODLE which is a learning management system that will support online education and help instructors to develop and assess courses in a customized way.

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Moodle has turned out to be exceedingly popular in the world of online education especially for the educators as it allows them to create online dynamic websites and classrooms to provide education in real-time. The educators at Nixon University will be using Moodle to manage and promote learning and it will assist them in removing all the interaction and customization problems that students faced before. Moodle will be used by Nixon University instructors in three different ways. The first goal would be to design the overall degree program in a customized way, which will help students to opt for the courses they find interesting. The second target would be increasing the interaction, and building a richly collaborative online learning community around the subject of discussion through different activity modules such as forums, databases and wikis. Nixon Universitys third and most important goal of using Moodle is the effectual way of delivering content to students and assess the overall learning of the students and matching the delivery of course with the students pace.

At this occasion of progression, the Academic Head at Nixon University commented: The use of free- and easy to use learning management system by Nixon University is like taking a step closer towards providing a comprehensible and clear direction to online education. Managing thousands of students was not an easy job for the instructors, but by using the new Moodle system, instructors can not only manage the students and their individual records but also their quizzes and assignments in an organized manner He further stated: This system will help us create an intellectual environment to facilitate effective online learning, we will also take part in the advancement and research undertaken by researchers, experts and practitioners on this system and share the achievements and experiences we have had using Moodle

Nixon University is a well known name in the field of online education because of the number of career services it offers. It not only provides quality education but also promotes accessibility and affordability to all the working professionals across the globe. It has been established with the mission of assisting students and working professionals to attain fast track and unremitting career growth.

About Nixon University:

Nixon University is an accredited online university that stands to make quality education accessible to all the students across the globe. Nixon University is completely accredited by a globally renowned accreditation body Q.O.E.C.B (Quality Online Education Certification Bureau) that provides the status of accreditation after evaluating the applicant on tough educational standards. Being a member USDLA (United States distance learning Association), Nixon follows strategically designed curricula and maintains the highest standard of education to provide its students an edge over their colleagues by offering a wide range of majors through its 16 distinct and renowned schools of study. For more information visit http://www.nixonuniversity.com

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30-09-2012 17:18 Michelle Pacansky-Brock traces the possibilities the social era holds for transforming online learning.

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Domain Invest, S.A. is delighted to announce the launch of OnlineSchool.com, one of the most premier domain names in the world for online education. The website provides a vast amount of valuable advice, tips and relevant facts concerning all aspects of online degrees, careers, schools and more. Each day the site is connecting hundreds of students and interested visitors with the information they need to pick a school and enjoy a rewarding career.

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Click here to visit OnlineSchool.com.

This unique and easy to navigate website investigates all elements comprising an online school and especially examines in detail the importance of accreditation. Without proper accreditation from organizations qualified to judge the validity of an online school's ability to provide exceptional instruction, a degree earned from an online school that has not voluntarily asked for accreditation from a regional or national accrediting agency may be useless upon graduation.

About the Importance of Online School Accreditation.

Students with degrees from inferior online schools could be saddled with not only a degree that employers do not recognize but debt that may take years to repay. At OnlineSchool.com, the website provides links and lists of recognized accrediting agencies as well as information about the U.S. Department of Education to prevent this from happening to students thinking about enrolling in an online school program.

Additional information found on OnlineSchool.com includes:

Online High School and GED Programs

OnlineSchool.com also provides information for people who never received a high school diploma and would like to earn a GED online. The accessibility and convenience of online high school classes simplifies the process of earning a GED, which leads to greater employment opportunities and higher wages. Information regarding online schools with high school diploma programs can be found on this new website.

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Coursera founders Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller are computer science professors at Stanford University.

Coursera founders Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller are computer science professors at Stanford University.

Online education isn't particularly new. It has been around in some form since the 1990s, but what is new is the speed and scale in which online learning is growing.

In barely a year, many of the most prestigious research universities in the world including Stanford, Caltech, Oxford and Princeton have started to jump onto the online bandwagon.

For the students who never, ever would have had access to this kind of quality education from a place like Penn or Princeton or Stanford, they now have access to something.

- Daphne Koller, Coursera co-founder

Those universities now offer classes through consortiums like Coursera, a tech company that's partnered with more than 30 of the top universities in the world to offer online classes from its course catalogue for free. Other companies offering online courses include Udacity and edX.

Earlier this year in Kazahkstan, 22-year-old computer science student Askhat Muzrabayev had a problem.

"The problem is our university is relatively small, it has about 2,000 students, and we didn't have [Artificial Intelligence] classes in the syllabus," Muzrabayev says.

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28-09-2012 11:23 The president of EdX explains how the program's free online classes can benefit potential students.

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CollegeWeekLive to Power Online College Admission Event as Part of Univision's Education Initiative !Educate, Es El Momento! On Thursday, October 11; Register at http://www.eselmomento.com

NEEDHAM HEIGHTS, Mass., Sept. 28, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As part of Univision Communications' multi-year initiative to promote educational attainment in Hispanic America, !Educate, Es El Momento! (Educate Yourself, The Moment is Now), the leading media company has partnered with CollegeWeekLive to offer a free online college fair on Thursday, October 11, 2012. The college admissions event, which will be available at http://www.eselmomento.com, is part of Univision's Education Week and will address the higher education needs of Hispanic students and their families.

The interactive program, which runs nationwide from 12:00 noon to 10:00 pm ET, will provide free access to expert college admissions advice through streaming video presentations and live chat with college representatives. The online college fair addresses higher education topics of particular importance to Latino families -- both students and their parents, who may not have experience with the college application process and could be apprehensive about sending their children away to college.

"The goal is to create a culture of college readiness in the Hispanic community and focus specifically on what is necessary for college completion," said Cesar Conde, president, Univision Networks. "The addition of a free online college fair powered by CollegeWeekLive to Univision's Education Week will help students and parents to better understand what the process is to get into college, and what steps are needed to earn a degree."

Nationally, Latinos have a 14 percent lower college graduation rate than non-Hispanic whites, and Latinos lag behind other racial groups by 25 percent when comparing the number of degrees attained. Latinos make up 16 percent of the overall population and 22 percent of the K-12 population, yet only 19 percent of Latinos in America have earned an associate degree or higher compared to 38 percent of all adults, according to a research study conducted by EdExcelencia cited in USA TODAY. Because Latinos make up one sixth of the total population, Latino educational attainment is at the heart of the future economic viability of the United States.

"The growing population of Latino students represents an enormous opportunity for colleges and universities. Higher education best contributes to a thriving democratic society when we educate students from all walks of life, including students who are the first in their families to go to college," said Fernando M. Reimers, the Ford Foundation Professor of International Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Program Chair for the event. "I admire the leadership provided by CollegeWeekLive and Univision in producing this rich and comprehensive program to empower Latino students and families with knowledge that will help them chart a path to college."

Admissions representatives from more than 120 colleges will be standing by, ready to chat live online with students and their families in English and Spanish. Online video programming, with the ability for online attendees to get live answers to their questions via chat, includes:

THURSDAY OCTOBER 11, 2012 (All Times Eastern)

12 PM, The College Essay Zaragoza Guerra, College Coach

1 PM, Hidden Gems of Financial Aid Opportunities Stella Flores, Assistant Professor, Department of Leadership, Policy & Organizations, Vanderbilt University, Ed.M., Ed.D., Harvard Graduate School of Education, M.P. Aff, University of Texas at Austin

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A hundred years ago, higher education seemed on the verge of a technological revolution. The spread of a powerful new communication networkthe modern postal systemhad made it possible for universities to distribute their lessons beyond the bounds of their campuses. Anyone with a mailbox could enroll in a class. Frederick Jackson Turner, the famed University of Wisconsin historian, wrote that the "machinery" of distance learning would carry "irrigating streams of education into the arid regions" of the country. Sensing a historic opportunity to reach new students and garner new revenues, schools rushed to set up correspondence divisions. By the 1920s, postal courses had become a full-blown mania. Four times as many people were taking them as were enrolled in all the nation's colleges and universities combined.

The hopes for this early form of distance learning went well beyond broader access. Many educators believed that correspondence courses would be better than traditional on-campus instruction because assignments and assessments could be tailored specifically to each student. The University of Chicago's Home-Study Department, one of the nation's largest, told prospective enrollees that they would "receive individual personal attention," delivered "according to any personal schedule and in any place where postal service is available." The department's director claimed that correspondence study offered students an intimate "tutorial relationship" that "takes into account individual differences in learning." The education, he said, would prove superior to that delivered in "the crowded classroom of the ordinary American University."

We've been hearing strikingly similar claims today. Another powerful communication networkthe Internetis again raising hopes of a revolution in higher education. This fall, many of the country's leading universities, including MIT, Harvard, Stanford, and Princeton, are offering free classes over the Net, and more than a million people around the world have signed up to take them. These "massive open online courses," or MOOCs, are earning praise for bringing outstanding college teaching to multitudes of students who otherwise wouldn't have access to it, including those in remote places and those in the middle of their careers. The online classes are also being promoted as a way to bolster the quality and productivity of teaching in generalfor students on campus as well as off. Former U.S. secretary of education William Bennett has written that he senses "an Athens-like renaissance" in the making. Stanford president John Hennessy told the New Yorker he sees "a tsunami coming."

The excitement over MOOCs comes at a time of growing dissatisfaction with the state of college education. The average price tag for a bachelor's degree has shot up to more than $100,000. Spending four years on campus often leaves young people or their parents weighed down with big debts, a burden not only on their personal finances but on the overall economy. And many people worry that even as the cost of higher education has risen, its quality has fallen. Dropout rates are often high, particularly at public colleges, and many graduates display little evidence that college improved their critical-thinking skills. Close to 60 percent of Americans believe that the country's colleges and universities are failing to provide students with "good value for the money they and their families spend," according to a 2011 survey by the Pew Research Center. Proponents of MOOCs say the efficiency and flexibility of online instruction will offer a timely remedy.

Data from Institute of Education Sciences and Pew Research Center.

But not everyone is enthusiastic. The online classes, some educators fear, will at best prove a distraction to college administrators; at worst, they will end up diminishing the quality of on-campus education. Critics point to the earlier correspondence-course mania as a cautionary tale. Even as universities rushed to expand their home-study programs in the 1920s, investigations revealed that the quality of the instruction fell short of the levels promised and that only a tiny fraction of enrollees actually completed the courses. In a lecture at Oxford in 1928, the eminent American educator Abraham Flexner delivered a withering indictment of correspondence study, claiming that it promoted "participation" at the expense of educational rigor. By the 1930s, once-eager faculty and administrators had lost interest in teaching by mail. The craze fizzled.

Is it different this time? Has technology at last advanced to the point where the revolutionary promise of distance learning can be fulfilled? We don't yet know; the fervor surrounding MOOCs makes it easy to forget that they're still in their infancy. But even at this early juncture, the strengths and weaknesses of this radically new form of education are coming into focus.

Rise of the MOOCs

"I had no clue what I was doing," Sebastian Thrun says with a chuckle, as he recalls his decision last year to offer Stanford's Introduction to Artificial Intelligence course free online. The 45-year-old robotics expert had a hunch that the class, which typically enrolls a couple of hundred undergraduates, would prove a draw on the Net. After all, he and his co-professor, Peter Norvig, were both Silicon Valley stars, holding top research posts at Google in addition to teaching at Stanford. But while Thrun imagined that enrollment might reach 10,000 students, the actual number turned out to be more than an order of magnitude higher. When the class began, in October 2011, some 160,000 people had signed up.

The experience changed Thrun's life. Declaring "I can't teach at Stanford again," he announced in January that he was joining two other roboticists to launch an ambitious educational startup called Udacity. The venture, which bills itself as a "21st-century university," is paying professors from such schools as Rutgers and the University of Virginia to give open courses on the Net, using the technology originally developed for the AI class. Most of the 14 classes Udacity offers fall into the domains of computer science and mathematics, and Thrun says it will concentrate on such fields for now. But his ambitions are hardly narrow: he sees the traditional university degree as an outdated artifact and believes Udacity will provide a new form of lifelong education better suited to the modern labor market.

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CollegeWeekLive to Power Online College Admission Event as Part of Univision's Education Initiative !Educate, Es El Momento! On Thursday, October 11; Register at http://www.eselmomento.com

NEEDHAM HEIGHTS, Mass., Sept. 28, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Please note, the agenda for the event has been revised. The updated release follows:

As part of Univision Communications' multi-year initiative to promote educational attainment in Hispanic America, !Educate, Es El Momento! (Educate Yourself, The Moment is Now), the leading media company has partnered with CollegeWeekLivea to offer a free online college fair on Thursday, October 11, 2012. The college admissions event, which will be available at http://www.eselmomento.com, is part of Univision's Education Week and will address the higher education needs of Hispanic students and their families.

The interactive program, which runs nationwide from 12:00 noon to 10:00 pm ET, will provide free access to expert college admissions advice through streaming video presentations and live chat with college representatives. The online college fair addresses higher education topics of particular importance to Latino families -- both students and their parents, who may not have experience with the college application process and could be apprehensive about sending their children away to college.

"The goal is to create a culture of college readiness in the Hispanic community and focus specifically on what is necessary for college completion," said Cesar Conde, president, Univision Networks. "The addition of a free online college fair powered by CollegeWeekLive to Univision's Education Week will help students and parents to better understand what the process is to get into college, and what steps are needed to earn a degree."

Nationally, Latinos have a 14 percent lower college graduation rate than non-Hispanic whites, and Latinos lag behind other racial groups by 25 percent when comparing the number of degrees attained. Latinos make up 16 percent of the overall population and 22 percent of the K-12 population, yet only 19 percent of Latinos in America have earned an associate degree or higher compared to 38 percent of all adults, according to a research study conducted by EdExcelencia cited in USA TODAY. Because Latinos make up one sixth of the total population, Latino educational attainment is at the heart of the future economic viability of the United States.

"The growing population of Latino students represents an enormous opportunity for colleges and universities. Higher education best contributes to a thriving democratic society when we educate students from all walks of life, including students who are the first in their families to go to college," said Fernando M. Reimers, the Ford Foundation Professor of International Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Program Chair for the event. "I admire the leadership provided by CollegeWeekLive and Univision in producing this rich and comprehensive program to empower Latino students and families with knowledge that will help them chart a path to college."

Admissions representatives from more than 120 colleges will be standing by, ready to chat live online with students and their families in English and Spanish. Online video programming, with the ability for online attendees to get live answers to their questions via chat, includes:

THURSDAY OCTOBER 11, 2012 (All Times Eastern)

12 PM, Welcome Address Fernando Reimers, Program Chair, Ford Foundation Professor of International Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education

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DALLAS, Sept. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The ComputED Gazette announced today that five Cambium Learning Group online programs, ExploreLearning Gizmos, ExploreLearning Reflex, VmathLive, Ticket to Read and firefly, were named winners in its 17th Annual 2012 Education Software Review Awards (EDDIES).

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The EDDIES target content-rich and innovative programs and websites that augment classroom curriculum and improve the productivity of teachers. Winning products provide teachers and parents alike with technology that fosters educational excellence and are chosen from titles submitted by publishers worldwide.

"We are thrilled that The ComputED Gazette chose five online programs from our Cambium Learning family of companies," says Ron Klausner, chief executive officer of Cambium Learning Group. "Recognition from our industry peers proves that as a company we are continuing in our mission through our online programs, to enable educators to unlock every child's potential through learning, no matter where their journey begins."

For more information, visit http://www.cambiumlearning.com.

About Cambium Learning Group, Inc.Cambium Learning Group (ABCD) is the leading educational company focused primarily on serving the needs of at-risk and special student populations. The company is comprised of three business units: Voyager Learning provides comprehensive print and online intervention solutions, professional development, and school turnaround offerings and includes Lincoln National Academy, Class.com, and Voyager Education Services; Sopris Learning is known for supplemental solutions, including assessment, supplemental intervention, positive behavior supports and professional development; and Cambium Learning Technologies develops instructional and assistive technology and represents IntelliTools, Kurzweil Educational Systems, Learning AZ, and ExploreLearning. Cambium Learning Group is committed to providing evidence-based support and expert professional services to empower educators and raise the achievement levels of all students. Learn more at http://www.cambiumlearning.com.

Media Contact:Shannan Overbeck Cambium Learning Group, Inc. 214.932.9476 shannan.overbeck@cambiumlearning.com

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