Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Friday, June 21, 2002

http://www.sj-r.com/news/Friday/f.htm

UIS online programs to get boost from grant
KELLY DAVENPORT, STAFF WRITER

In appropriate high-tech fashion, educators at the University of Illinois at Springfield zipped off e-mail messages to one another after receiving word of a $500,000 grant that would allow the addition of six new online degrees. The announcement last week from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation resulted from a January application. It also came just as Chancellor Richard Ringeisen had cautioned that plans to add online programs could be put on hold because of state budget cuts."We were elated," said Ray Schroeder, director of the Office of Technology-Enhanced Learning...

 



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