Monday, July 11, 2011

Proposed Funding for Online Education

By Ken Scherpelz, Vice President of Sales and Business Development

President Barack Obama is proposing a multibillion-dollar investment in the nation's community colleges, a $12 billion effort over ten years to help the two-year institutions reach, teach, and train more people for "the jobs of the future." Some of the money could be available by the 2010 budget year that begins Oct. 1. Half a billion, or $500 million, would go toward online education for developing online courses.

In the 30-plus years I’ve been in educational publishing, our industry’s transition from print to digital delivery has been relatively slow when compared to that of other industries. However, we can now safely say that education has accepted the digital world, and a great deal of effective educational content comes to us via a variety of electronic devices every day. It’s time for a concerted effort to get this critical content into the hands (and minds) of our students.

PSG can help you prepare your content for digital delivery online, by creating new content with authoring systems or reformatting existing content.

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