AOL's Digital City Los Angeles and OnlineLearning.net Offer Digital City Members the Opportunity to Continue Their Education Online in 1999

Business Wire, Jan 19, 1999

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 19, 1999--AOL's Digital City, the No. 1 local resource and interactive community guide in Los Angeles, and OnlineLearning.net, the leading online supplier of continuing higher education, have teamed to offer AOL members and web users in the Southern California area more than 100 of UCLA Extension's renowned continuing higher education courses.

By joining forces with AOL's Digital City, OnlineLearning.net and UCLA Extension are able to make their innovative online curriculum available to millions more potential students.

"We're pleased to be teaming with Digital City Los Angeles to offer web users a new way to learn that's as easy as using AOL," says John Kobara, president and CEO of OnlineLearning.net. "We've achieved an unprecedented history of student satisfaction," Kobara adds, "with 85% of our students rating UCLA Extension's online courses as good or better than 'face to face learning.'"

The online courses now being offered through OnlineLearning.net and promoted on Digital City Los Angeles are offered in a variety of fields including business, education, writing and computer programming. Students can "attend" class from their own computers 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from anywhere in the world. Each online course is led by one of UCLA Extension's outstanding instructors and class size is limited to 25.

Digital City, Inc. is the nation's largest and the Internet Online's most popular local city resource and community guide. Available on America Online at Keyword: Digital City, on CompuServe's Local Channel, on Netscape's NetCenter and on the Web at www.digitalcity.com, Digital City helps residents get the most from their communities. Based in Vienna, Va., Digital City, an AOL Studios business, is owned primarily by America Online and Tribune Company.

OnlineLearning.net is the leading online supplier of continuing higher education and is dedicated to providing busy professionals with the tools needed to pursue their lifelong learning objectives.

For more information, or to register for a course, please call 800-784-8436, or visit our Web site: http://www.onlinelearning.net. AOL keyword: OnlineLearningnet