Online Lectures Are Ideal for Today’s Student

College lecture halls provide seating for large numbers of students that cannot be accommodated in standard-size classrooms. But the passive setting of a lecture hall combined with the potentially boring process of the speech itself may not be ideal for learning-students today often fall victim to distractions like Facebook or texting. But while students in [...]

Online Nursing Programs Provide Exceptional Education

Increased popularity of online education, in combination with current and predicted nursing shortages across the country, has led to the development of new online nursing programs, including online master’s programs for nurses. One program, the online Master of Science in Nursing at Benedictine University, was recently accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), [...]

Community College Moves Online

Three Rivers College, the community college of southeast Missouri, will now offer a full online degree program to students who desire the convenience of taking online courses. Steven Lewis, an instructor at TRCC noticed that many students enrolled at the college took one or two courses online in addition to the classes they attended at [...]