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Career Education Corporation's Online Education Group (CEC OEG) has been chosen to host a session, titled, "Sign on the Electronic Line".
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Career Education Corporation's Online Education Group (CEC OEG) has been chosen to host a session, titled, "Sign on the Electronic Line" at the Career College Association's (CCA) annual Convention and Exposition this coming June in Florida. The Career College Association is a voluntary membership organization of private, postsecondary schools, institutes, colleges and universities that provide career-specific educational programs.*
The main speaker for this session will be from CEC OEG, which will be co-presented by Win Goodridge of Experian. Experian serves as CEC OEG's third-party verification service for its electronic signature infrastructure. The session will offer an overview of the regulatory requirements for the use of electronic signatures and a demonstration of the practical integration of e-signature technologies to online forms that allow students to utilize the benefit of online applications or other required forms throughout the matriculation process.
The use of electronic signatures for the higher education institutions is a continuous topic of discussion since the federal ESIGN Act (The Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act of 2000), came into effect July 2001. It was intended to open the door to the use of electronic signatures as equal to pen-and-ink signatures.
As the first higher education institution in the United States approved to allow students to electronically sign federal financial aid application-related documents and one of the first universities to use electronic signatures for the student enrollment process, CEC OEG can serve as a great resource to other educational institutions who are considering adding this capability, which truly serves as a student benefit.
The higher education community has been somewhat reticent in adopting the full use of electronic signatures across all documents that may require a legally-binding signature in a postsecondary student's matriculation process, but perhaps the session hosted by AIU Online will help to dispel any myths which may have prevented schools from integrating this capability.
More information about CEC OEG's presentation at the CCA Convention and Exposition will follow as the date of the event approaches.
*The CCA has 1,100 members who educate and support more than a million students each year for employment in over 200 occupational fields. These schools and colleges graduate approximately one-half of the technically trained workers who enter the U.S. workforce each year and also provide retraining for displaced workers and skills-upgrading for a wide variety of public and private employers. See www.career.org.
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