Nova Southeastern University

I am creating this blog for an assignment for the Distance Learning Certificate Program at the University of West Georgia. In the coming days I am going to post information on institutions that stand out above the rest in the field of distance education.

The first institution whose distance program I believe stands out above the rest is Nova Southeastern University http://www.nova.edu, which is based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It is the 7th largest independent, not-for-profit institution nationwide. It offers several undergraduate and graduate degree programs through distance education delivery systems in subjects such as business, health, computer science, education, optometry, law, pharmacy, and psychology. The course management system used to deliver their online courses is WebCT CE version 4.1.

A professor at Nova, Dr. Yair Levy, gave a presentation at the 2005 WebCT Impact conference in San Francisco about a doctoral program in computer information systems at Nova's Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences (GSCIS) that is offered almost entirely through WebCT. Dr. Levy has also recently authored a book titled Assessing the Value of E-Learning Systems.