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Open Universities Australia (OUA) is pleased to announce the first Visiting Scholar under the new Centre for Online Learning Excellence Thomas C. Reeves, Ph.D. who will be working with OUA from 12 November to 10 December. SOURCE: Open Universities of AustraliaRead the Press Release
11 percent of teachers know a friend who has been ‘cyberbaited,’ or taunted by a student hoping to record an outburst, according to a new surveySOURCE: eSchool NewsRead the Full Article
School leaders unsure who will pay for computers as states prepare to give online examsSOURCE: eSchool NeesRead the Full Article
Three University of Pennsylvania students who recently dropped out to start an upstart course-management system today unveiled their software, called Coursekit, after having raised more than $1-million in venture capital.SOURCE: Wired Campus
Ball State University today announced that it will award a $500 Completion Scholarship to Hoosier students who are on track to earning their degrees within four years. SOURCE: Ball State UniversityRead the Press Release
FAIRBANKS — More than half of University of Alaska Fairbanks students are taking at least one of their courses through the Internet this semester, a first-time milestone that coincides with a boom in online education at UAF.SOURCE: Fairbanks Daily News
A Virginia company leading a national movement to replace classrooms with computers — in which children as young as 5 can learn at home at taxpayer expense — is facing a backlash from critics who are questioning its funding, quality and oversight.SOURCE: The Washington PostRead the Full Article
New Delhi: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has introduced a suite of e-library services by converting the existing services into e-services and exploring many other ways to support its distance education system such as increasing the scope of e-resources accessed, better methods of seeking information, saving time in the information search and delivery, […]
MADISON, Alabama — Take a virtual field trip to Antarctica and talk with scientists working there, or maybe “travel” to Frankfurt, Germany, to interact with the consultant general.SOURCE: Al.comRead the Full Article
Thank you, Anne Bouverot and GSMA, for inviting me to speak. It’s a pleasure to be at GSMA’s Mobile Asia Congress. As this conference makes clear, the world is going mobile. There are roughly four billion mobile subscribers worldwide with about six billion subscriptions. China alone added thirty million subscriptions in just the last quarter, […]