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One of the largest donations in history has been made to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to the tune of $360 million. School officials will not release information about the donor or whether they are an alumnus of the school.
In a bid to bridge the digital divide, the British government has drawn together its online resources along with privately operated net services, to launch the UK Online centers.
(U-WIRE) COLUMBUS, Ohio — Distance learning technology, like the rest of the dot-com industry, is starting to shake out. And according to a recent study of six universities by The Chronicle of Higher Education, distance learning technology is not bringing in great amounts of revenue that administrators once thought it would.
Dark rooms with cobwebs and dusty film reels are an unusual laboratory for innovation. But in the backrooms of ScreenSound Australia – our national film and sound archive – a software system has been quietly marketed and sold to clients in Europe and the United States, including one of the world’s most prestigious archives at […]
Leslie Conery, PhD, took over as Interim CEO of International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) effective March 1, 2001. She also will serve as Interim Executive Director of the National Education Computing Association (NECA) while the two organizations conduct a joint search for a permanent CEO to be based in Washington DC.
Michael G. Moore: The current editorial board of The American Journal of Distance Education has served, with what in this day and age seems almost incredible fidelity, for the full fourteen years of The Journals life. Today I am announcing retirements and new appointments in this critically important part of our enterprise.
After extensive discussion and an amendment, a resolution supporting the eventual abolition of the optional fee for students using Office of Information Technologies services was passed by the Faculty Senate at its March 1 meeting.
The Corporation of Brown University has approved an overall increase in undergraduate charges of 3.6 percent for the 2001-02 academic year, bringing the cost of a year at Brown to $34,750. That figure includes a 3.8-percent increase in tuition, to $26,568.
Minister of Education Kader Asmal’s National Plan for Higher Education, announced this week, was exoected to make a decisive break with the past. But it is difficult to see how the minister’s national plan will lead to the inauguration of institutions of which all South Africans will feel part. For now, they will remain historically […]
Johannesburg, Mar 09, 2001 (Mail and Guardian/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX)– * eliminating duplication of programmes offered by institutions in the same region; * establishing a single distance education provider by merging Unisa, Technikon South Africa and Vista University’s distance education centre; * setting up a national working group that, by the end of […]