 Virtual Universities
& Learning Portals. Learning Portals
are web sites that provide a combination of
courses, training collaboration and learner community. Like Amazon for books,
they want to be the single place you go on the Internet to find the training you
want. Initially set up for the individual purchaser with a credit card, most
portals aspire to offer college or continuing education credits of some type for
multiple registrations from a single organization. When Academic institutions
undertake learning portals, they are generally called "Virtual
Universities"
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Academic Portals
- Consortiums of non-profit universities and schools pooling or
consolidating web course listings
Commercial Portals - Portals and
virtual universities operated as a for-profit or independent aggregating
services
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Gradschools.com
- online source for graduate school information, with nearly
40,000 program listings.
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Certificates.Gradschools.com
- listings for U.S.-based post-baccalaureate certificate
programs in a range of disciplines. The site allows prospective students
to focus solely on post-baccalaureate, non-degreed programs, eliminating
the frustration of sifting through thousands of programs that do not
meet their needs. Programs are searchable first by subject, then by
location.
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Technology Degrees Online-IT Programs -
Colleges and universities offering degrees in technology in the U.S. can
be browsed here by state, degree, or school name. Research careers
in the various fields of technology and see what kind of salaries these
IT professionals are making.
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Education Atlas
- nice collection of Education, Degrees, and Distance Learning
Resources
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Universities.Com
- an extensive on-line reference of
Post-Secondary distance learning and on-campus colleges and
universities.
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Directory of
Technical Schools -
list of technical schools with online degrees as well as traditional
campus schools.
- UK Virtual College
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e-learning courses developed in-house
and from a variety of external sources. Many can be bought online.
- World Wide Learn - aggregator of credit and
professional programs
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Peterson's Guides
- Probably the largest of the for-profit portals,
Peterson's started with a comprehensive print catalog of
non-traditional learning opportunities and has expanded to the web.
- Fathom
Not a virtual university, but an archive of free course content
contributed from
member institutions including Columbia University, London School of
Economics and Political Science, Cambridge University Press, The
British Library, The New York Public Library, The University of
Chicago, the University of Michigan, American Film Institute (AFI),
RAND, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Victoria and Albert
Museum, Science Museum (UK), and The Natural History Museum (UK).
Fathom brings together lectures, interviews, articles, and exhibits
by faculty and experts from some of the world's leading
universities, libraries, museums, and disseminators of research.
Online courses and seminars representing the best in online
education are available through Fathom, as well as books and other
products. Unique reference content spans all disciplines and fields
of study.
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Get Educated.com
- Listings of programs and courses
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Distance Studies.com
- paid and free listings of courses from selected universities
- Bakers
Guide to Christian Distance Education -
specializes in education for Christian learners
- CollegeNet
- An online admissions aggregator, through this portal
you can apply to over 1500 college and university programs (not
necessarily providing distance education courses). When applying to
more than one program you save redundant typing since common data
automatically travels from form to form.
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The University of
Tennessee
- UT Masters Programs via distance
- UT Certificates via Distance:
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Umaryland
- elearning courses and programs from the University of Maryland
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UMassOnline-
Online classes from the University of Massachusetts
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Penn
State World Campus - A global Distance Delivery
initiative from Pennsylvania's land grant university
- New York University
- NYU's extension program
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UCLA Extension On
Line - Marketed under the brand name "OnLine Learning"
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Jones
International University - bills itself as
"the first fully accredited university to operate wholly on the Internet"
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Seton
Hall University is
currently offering full-degree graduate programs via the Net through
its online university, SetonWorldWide. Individuals in such areas as
healthcare management, strategic communication and leadership,
counseling and educational administration and leadership take
courses using the Internet. Students include corporate executives,
healthcare industry managers, physicians and military people from
throughout the United States as well as other countries.
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New
Jersey Institute of Technology
has a well organized site detailing procedures and courses available
via distance education
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UOC
- a DE university in Europe.
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Tennessee
Board of Regents -
Online courses and degrees from Tennessee's state-funded
community college
network
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University of
Wisconsin Extension - Also hosts a Distance Learning Clearing house
- University of Phoenix
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one
of the nations largest, for profit education institution offering residential and
web-based courses
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- University of Tennessee
- correspondence and some electronically delivered
coursework for high school and college credit.
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Class.com - Online spinoff of University of
Nebraska's Virtual High School Program
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Florida Virtual High School
- an internet-based, public high
school offering online high school curriculum any time, any place, any
path, any pace™. The Florida Legislature initially funded FLVS as a pilot
project in 1997 to begin course development with limited student
enrollment. In 2000, the Florida Legislature enacted 228.082, FL Statute,
establishing FLVS as an independent education entity with a Gubernatorial
appointed governing board.
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- The National Safety Council's
new
online workplace safety training
covers a variety of safety topics geared towards employees in many
industries and positions. Courses are centered on training required by
OSHA general industry standards.
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Internet Elearning Institute
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online courses for web technology professionals. A
vendor neutral certification program in web database and other
internet-based professional career areas. Asynchronously delivered and
offers multiple certification levels.
Provided through the University of Tennessee
- Healthstream
- Online classes for Health Care professionals
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Element K technical training in PC topics
- Limu
- a global knowledge marketplace where teaching and learning is live,
online and interactive. Teachers and tutors can register a course in any
subject, set their price, while students can book courses offered by
teachers and tutors in over 150 subject categories. Courses take place
in Limu's virtual classroom, which includes features such as live voice
over IP, text chat, live drawing board and shared access to uploaded
course material.
- Manpower Inc.'s Global
Learning Center - a free service available to Manpower Employees providing job
search information and market-based employment data. Password protected options at the
site offer skills training and other employment resources.. Courses cover information
technology areas.
- Spectrum Virtual U
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Spectrum offers courses on a variety of different topics (wellness, business, computers,
child abuse). Spectrum is a non-profit organization and its courses are taught by
volunteers. Courses are offered on a semester basis.
- Kelly Scientific
Resources, a unit of Kelly Services Inc., a training site with
health and safety courses to keep scientists' skills current.
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