AskOnline Recognizes University for its Exceptional Collaborative Environment for Academic Support May 1, 2013, Braintree, MA. Internet software provider AskOnline has awarded its first Innovator Award to the University of Southern Maine’s Learning Commons. This award is presented to institutions that are expanding the boundaries of AskOnline’s technology through creative applications of its software platform [...]

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Awards the Texas Star to HCC Houston CC Is Finalist for the 2012 Bellwether Tutoring Prize Houston Community College has earned state (Winner — Texas HIgher Education Coordinating Board Star award) and national (Finalist — Bellwether Award) recognition for the dramatic success of its trailblazing self-staffed tutoring program. Comprised of [...]

Boasting campuses across the globe, Webster University’s main campus is located in Webster Groves, MO. “The University’s core values include excellence in teaching, joining theory and practice, small class sizes, and educating students to be lifelong independent learners, fully prepared to participate in an increasingly international society.” To further reflect the university’s values the Academic [...]

Recently AskOnline introduced a new way for students to use their smartphones to work with the the Interactive Whiteboard in its Subject Area Chat Rooms. Now students can snap a photo of a homework problem, perhaps a complex equation set, and then send it directly from the smartphone to AskOnline’s whiteboard for review. Working together [...]

Linda Morosko, the director of Distance Learning at Stark State College of Technology, recently told us that their online tutoring had increased 100% over last year. Stark State, an AskOnline client since 2008, came up with a clever way to get the word out to students about their online tutoring options. Linda and her team [...]

In St. Lucie, Florida, Indian River State College’s Trio program has chosen AskOnline’s Tutoring Platform to support their Trio Program. Reginald Floyd spearheaded the project to implement an online option to supplement their existing face-to-face tutoring services. Indian River’s program helps high school students prepare for college admission with tutoring services offered across a wide [...]

To support their students, Columbia University’s School of General Studies now offers online tutoring powered by AskOnline’s technology. The School of General Studies is the finest liberal arts college in the United States created specifically for returning and nontraditional students seeking a rigorous, traditional, Ivy League undergraduate degree full- or part-time. Many of the school’s [...]

Serving students online since 2003, Herzing University Online academic programs are specifically designed to prepare students for dynamic careers in the fields of healthcare, business, technology, design, and public safety. Based at the Herzing University headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Herzing University Online has been recognized as the “Best School for Online Education – 2009” by [...]

Mary Jo Buff, Tutor Coordinator for the University of Montevallo’s Upward Bound Program, recently sat in on a tutor training session held by Maija Braaten, of the university’s Aspire/Student Support Services. Mary Jo was so impressed by the functionality of AskOnline’s tutoring platform, that she called on AskOnline to extend the school’s license to include [...]