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A House subcommittee passed a bill on Wednesday to make it easier for some distance-education programs to offer federal financial aid, despite strong opposition by Democratic lawmakers who said that too many restrictions would be lifted.
A federal judge in Manhattan ruled yesterday that the term “book” in book contracts does not automatically include electronic books. The decision goes to the heart of a battle over who controls the right to sell digital editions of the great majority of work published the last century.
When Alicia Bata needs quick results from a quiz in her Spanish class, she has her students pass their work to classmates and then goes over the answers with them. In a few minutes, she knows who understood the lesson and who did not.
“IMS in Europe” to support E-learning specification and product development BOSTON, Mass. and AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands – June 29, 2001 – IMS, a global consortium of more than 300 educational institutions, commercial entities and government agencies today announced the founding of IMS in Europe – an independent foundation incorporated in the Netherlands that will serve […]
Section 105(a) of the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (“ESIGN Act”) directs the Department of Commerce (“Department”) to conduct an inquiry and report to Congress on the effectiveness of electronic mail in the delivery of records, as compared with the delivery of records via the United States Postal Service and private express […]
Washington, DC: The U.S. publishing industry today urged the House of Representatives to pass without amendment S. 487, a hard-won compromise digital distance education bill approved by the Senate on June 7. The Senate bill, entitled the TEACH (Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization) Act, seeks to broaden the existing copyright exemption for instructional television broadcasting […]
The White House today nominated John H. Marburger to become the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that publishers must get permission from freelance writers before republishing their work electronically.
Iran’s telecommunications ministry denied a reformist newspaper report Sunday that it has prohibited under-18s from going to internet cafes.
Tuition at Miami University — the most expensive public, four-year university in Ohio — will increase by 8 percent in the fall.